DOS Question

[Hallowsend]

I copied some files from a hosed Vista Vaio laptop to an external HD through DOS. When I hooked up the external HD to an XP machine, XP can find no trace of the files.

Hooked back up to Vista Vaio and there they are.

What am I missing?

 

[StevenD]

Are you able to see the drive on both and just the files are missing, or can you not see the external drive at all on XP?

 

[Hallowsend]

I can see the HD on both systems. Can see all my pre-existing files in XP (and Vista), but not the files copied from Vista on XP.

I created a folder (using mkdir) while hooked to Vista to store these files and, according to XP, there is no such folder. Arrrgh!

 

[Hallowsend]

I should add that, if I understand correctly, this is was done through cmd.exe not real DOS. I'm not sure if that makes a difference. DOS and its lookalikes were never my strongpoints.

 

[Van]

Your using an older os to see a newer os, its kind of like trying to play a ps3 game on a ps2 console. I went through the same thing with xp and 98 and had to hook the drive to an xp machine to actually see the files.

 

[duckydan]

It shouldn't matter that they were copied over on Vista though. I copy between the two OS a lot and have no problems. Is it possible the drive is formatted in a newer method however (i.e. not NTFS or Fat32)

Also, in a stupid question, are you sure it is copying to the hard drive and not just linking the files?

 

[Hallowsend]

Ducky: I used copy and xcopy, so this should have been a real copy.

Van: (I just love your avatar.) I had wondered if there may have been OS compatibility problems.

I've done a bit of Googling since first asking. I think the problem may be related to access rights / ownership. I'll have to wait until I get to work where the Vaio is to check this. Also, I'll bring my own Vista laptop just to see if the prob is at the OS level.

While I have your attention, does anyone know of a command to view all drives/partitions?

 

[14karat]

"does anyone know of a command to view all drives/partitions"

Well... it used to be fdisk, but I think that's history in Windows now.
With XP and Win Server, you can right-click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management

<edit> (another way to get there is Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Mgmt)

Not sure if it's changed with Vista or not...