recommend a file copy utility

builtin command line xcopy? google it

Try robocopy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

It's part of this toolkit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

backup and then rename the folder ?

Green_Manelishi said:

I need to copy a great number of files/folders from one drive to another. A backup will (probably) not work because it will preserve the root folder/file name and I want to copy the files/folders to a different folder name on the different drive. I hope that all made sense. Windows GUI copy will take too long. Any recommendations?

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Robocopy is already on board Vista and Windows 7. It is wicked fast, but instructions are horribly geeky.

Here's a batch file that I use:

robocopy "D:\Documents" "E:\documents backup folder on the ultra bay drive" /mir

Simply insert your own source and destination between the quotes and save as a .bat, instead of a text file. Right click the batch file and run as Admin.

"/mir" tells the program to mirror the folders, and to delete files that do not exist on the destination.

It automatically runs out of the command prompt. (cmd)

You can get a GUI frontend for Robocopy at Microsoft Technet. Makes it much easier for those that don't care for CLI or batch files.

I use Teracopy, I prefer it over Robocopy.

Thanks all. I downloaded Teracopy and it seems to work fine. Will also try out RoboCopy. It's times like these I wish my PC ran OpenVMS.

I am a Robocopy 'Geek' and have used it for WAN replication in the past... much better than MS's DFSR!

BUT... I just found out about RichCopy. It's multiprocessor away, and a little faster than Robocopy.

Here is a nice article on RichCopy

Working great for me under Windows 7... Might be worth a look. Launches and closes from a command line too!

HTH...