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Old 6th May 2006, 09:16
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Richard Spandit
 
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Copying files from corrupted disk, XP

My girlfriend's laptop died so I removed the hard drive and put it in a USB caddy that I then plugged into my laptop. I can browse her disk and see all of her files, but when I try to copy them across to mine, some of them won't (and I get "The path is too deep" error, which is b*llocks seeing as similarly named files copy OK). Not a big problem that these odd files won't copy, but Windows then stops the whole copy process and I have to manually select each folder without the aforementioned files.

Is there a better utility to use for copying files across? If bloody USB worked on my Linux box I'd do it there, but for the moment I'm stuck with Windoze...

addendum: I'm having some success, I think, with "Roadkil's (sic) Unstoppable Copier" from http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

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