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Number   :  9161
Date     :  2004-11-08
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Fatal error
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Kelvin Kirby"  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to copy my hard drive to a USB drive with the
> following command xxcopy e:\*.* h:\backup\E_Drive /s
> but part way through I got a loud beep and this error message....
> 
> "Error Trap
> A fatal situation forced XXCOPY.EXE to terminate before it
> has finished all the work it set out to accomplish. This
> message is given by XXCOPY.EXE to replace the Blue screen
> of Death! "
> 
> The Exit code was 40.
> 
> Can you advise me as to why this error may have occured ...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kelvin

There seems to have been an unusual number of Error 40 reports
recently. The common theme has been that this occurred when
there are a very large number of files in one directory
(i.e. > 10,000). The suggestion has been to use /nx0 to
disable short name preservation which has a punishing
overhead when dealing with very large numbers of files.
There hasn't been any feed back to this group whether /nx0
solved the problem but it's worth trying.

Note that to continue the copying from where it left off
without re-copying previously copied files, you can use:

xxcopy e:\ h:\backup\E_Drive /backup

Garry



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