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I wanted to copy the all the files in a folder including its sub-folders from one hard drive to another
I tried this xcopy command
C:\Documents and Settings\rakesh>xcopy "D:\Ganesh Drive\Trimax soft important" "
H:\" /E /k /x
but after executing this command I am getting access denied on the destination drive partition. Please let me why and how rectify this issue.
Ganesh Dake
Posted 2013-06-09T17:07:00.870
Reputation: 21
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I know this is long time ago, but since I had the same problem from the same kind of command (xcopy targeting a volume root with /x), I thought about sharing the solution.
This appears to be a bug in xcopy (Windows XP SP3 version 5.1.2600.5512 at least), where the root directory entry ”.” of the target directory gets its ACL erased.
Fixed it with ”CACLS [drive letter:] /g Everyone:F”.
Red_Blue
Posted 2013-06-09T17:07:00.870
Reputation: 21
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I have tried command prompt elevation, all possible switches with the xcopy command and had zero luck in copying the encrypted files (these files are highlighted in green )
After some googling, i was able to come up with a solution...the answer is robocopy and it works like a charm . This took a day's R&D
The switch that does this job is /EFSRAW . It copies all encrypted files in EFS RAW mode.
Your command would be something like
robocopy source destination /COPY:DATS /MIR /EFSRAW /R:2 /W:0 /E /ETA
Note - Robocopy is not an inbuilt feature in 2003 servers. It has to be installed separately. Also certain ESI files and certificates have to be imported to get the /EFSRAW switch to work in 2003 servers. This is not required on 2008, Vista and w7 servers.
Benly Walter
Posted 2013-06-09T17:07:00.870
Reputation: 11
Your question shows the second parameter to
xcopyas"(space)H:\". If that’s what you’re doing, try eliminating the space between the quote and theH. ... And, if you don't have any spaces in that directory pathname, you don't need the quotes. – Scott – 2013-06-11T00:24:00.343