Re: Copying a CD to the hard drive [XARC 525]



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Number   :  525
Date     :  2001-08-05
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Copying a CD to the hard drive
Size(KB) :  5


John, a belated question/suggestion for this kind of situation (as a
stop-gap pending any xxcopy changes): - what would happen if, after
running DOSLFNBK to capture the long file names, you boot into a DOS session
that can access your CD-ROM and then copy the file names over onto your
hard-drive. Since DOS only works with short file names, would it retain the
3-digit short names as they appear on the CD? If you were able to get them
onto the hard-drive that way then supposedly you could copy them onto a CDRW
as-is and then run DOSLFNBK against the CDRW, and add on files from other
CDRs later?

...Dan

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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: [xxcopy] Re: Copying a CD to the hard drive


> ***** From John Gill (The originator of this thread)....
> This is a status update on my attempt to copy a CD to the HD:
> 1. I started trying to use the LFNBK associated with Win-95.
> This errored out because it tried to remove the LFN's from
> the original CD. (Cannot erase on a factory CD)
> 2. I then tried LONGSAVE by Computer Tyme. This failed because
> it wanted to create the file containg the LFN's on the
> original CD.
> 3. I then downloaded DOSLFNBK and tried it. It allowed me to create
> the restore file any place on my hard disk.
> 4. I then created a directory on my HD and used XXCOPY with the
> /NX (and other flags) to copy the CD.
> 5. I was carried away by Dan's and Kenneth's remarks (below)
> that I forgot my original problem. My CD had short filenames
> (SFN) that included 3 digits (eg: TEST~123.GIF) and XXCOPY
> only uses a maximum of 2 digits (eg: TESTA~12.GIF). The 3-digit
> file now had a new SFN of TEST~1.GIF. The LFN seemed to copy
> OK. There was over 100 3-digit SFN's messed-up.
> 6. If DOSLFNBK had a way of using the LFN to restore the SFN, it
> would solve my problem. I finally used a CD-R and Adaptec's
> CD-Copier to copy the original CD. I just hated to have over
> 500 MB of blank unusabe space on the CD-R (but they are cheap).
>
> 7. I think the best approach would be for Kan to fix XXCOPY to
> work with SFN's that contain 3 digits. This was a CD that came
> with a book that I borrowed from the library. It had some useful
> files that I wanted to save for future consideration.
>
> Thanks for your ideas....
> John Gill
>
>
>
>
> --- In xxcopy@y..., "Kenneth Ives"  wrote:
> > Yes, that would work. As part of my DOS batch backup, the first
> step is to
> > run Doslfnbk, next run xxcopy, finally run Doslfnbk to perfom the
> > restoration of long filenames.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kenneth Ives mailto:kenaso@h...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Anderson [mailto:dan.anderson@s...]
> > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:45 PM
> > To: xxcopy@y...
> > Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Copying a CD to the hard drive
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I was still wondering about the question that John is asking.
> Does anyone
> > have any suggestions or confirmation? I haven't used doslfnbk but
> would
> > it solve the problem if a separate partition was reserved for the
> contents
> > of the data (ie. run doslfnbk against the contents of the CD and
> then run
> > doslfnbk restore in the partition after the data had been copied
> over to the
> > HD, and then run repeat the process later when going from the HD to
> the new
> > CD). I assume it has to be a stand-alone partition and not just a
> > directory within a partition that contains other data.
> >
> >
> >
> > ....Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ==========================
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Reply -----
> >
> > From: Dan Anderson 
> >
> > To: 
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:54 PM
> >
> > Subject: Re: [xxcopy] Copying a CD to the hard drive
> >
> >
> >
> > > When a CD is involved, several people have mentioned the use of
> doslfnbk
> > > ($10 shareware I think) that would be used in conjunction with
> xxcopy
> > (eg.
> > > http://www8.pair.com/dmurdoch/programs/doslfnbk.htm).
> > >
> > > I understand that Kan, xxcopy's creator, is looking at
> modifications to
> > > xxcopy to more fully accommodate the use of CDs as a backup
> medium.
> > >
> > > ...Dan
> >
> >
> >
> > ==================================
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: 
> >
> > To: 
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:14 AM
> >
> > Subject: [xxcopy] Copying a CD to the hard drive
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to copy the contents of a CD to my hard drive. The CD
> contains
> > about 50 MB of files. My goal is to take this CD and others and burn
> them to
> > a new CD. I want the copy to be an exact duplicate of the original.
> The
> > problem is the short file names are not duplicated on the HD. Using
> /CLONE,
> > I can get the ones with the single digit (eg: TESTAB~7.GIF) to
> duplicate.
> > But some of the original filenames have 3 digits (eg: TEST~123.GIF)
> and
> > these are changed to single digits when copying.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to make XXCOPY duplicate the original
> short name
> > when copying? Or is there another program that will create an exact
> copy of
> > my CD files. I just hate to use a full CD to copy just 50 MB. I
> normally
> > try to accumulate close to 600 MB of files on my HD before burning a
> new CD.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
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