JohnFCarter
04-26-2002, 01:01 AM
Hi,
I was copying the contents of one hard drive to another using XCOPY in a 32-bit window. I use these parameters:
xcopy [source drive:] [destination drive:] /c /h /e /r /k /y /v
In the past, I've always had perfect success in doing this (assuming of course that the destination drive has the active partition bit set and is properly partitioned and formatted previous to copying). This time around, I had a problem with capitalization. Maybe this has happened before but in this case, it was for a web designer ... where capitalization matters. Directories and file names that were all lower case suddenly were a mixture of upper case, all caps, and lower case. I am able to link the drives together and to use Explorer to copy these files and retain the all lower case attributes seen on the original drive.
What gives? The long file names are maintained but files that are all lower case at the source are not at the destination. I can view the source files from the destination partition through Windows 98 running on that destination and see the source files are all lower case ... which means it isn't just a Windows98 viewing scenario...the same Win98 running shows me the files differently.
The only oddity in my procedure is that I was on a Windows 2000 partition (using XCOPY from the path on Windows 2000) from one Win98 partition (old drive) to another drive with Bootmagic. Normally, I do this copy from within the source Win98 partition to the destination Win98 partition. I'm not sure if this is relevant but maybe Win2000 XCOPY works differently than the one on Win98?
Thanks!
I was copying the contents of one hard drive to another using XCOPY in a 32-bit window. I use these parameters:
xcopy [source drive:] [destination drive:] /c /h /e /r /k /y /v
In the past, I've always had perfect success in doing this (assuming of course that the destination drive has the active partition bit set and is properly partitioned and formatted previous to copying). This time around, I had a problem with capitalization. Maybe this has happened before but in this case, it was for a web designer ... where capitalization matters. Directories and file names that were all lower case suddenly were a mixture of upper case, all caps, and lower case. I am able to link the drives together and to use Explorer to copy these files and retain the all lower case attributes seen on the original drive.
What gives? The long file names are maintained but files that are all lower case at the source are not at the destination. I can view the source files from the destination partition through Windows 98 running on that destination and see the source files are all lower case ... which means it isn't just a Windows98 viewing scenario...the same Win98 running shows me the files differently.
The only oddity in my procedure is that I was on a Windows 2000 partition (using XCOPY from the path on Windows 2000) from one Win98 partition (old drive) to another drive with Bootmagic. Normally, I do this copy from within the source Win98 partition to the destination Win98 partition. I'm not sure if this is relevant but maybe Win2000 XCOPY works differently than the one on Win98?
Thanks!