Emergency Windows 7 USB boot without reinstall?

I really can't tell you. I have never used xcopy, and I am not sure it will work from the recovery console.

You may want to look at Robocopy instead of xcopy ROBOCOPY - Create Backup Script - Windows 7 Help Forums . I am not sure it will work in the recovery console.

You're very welcome. Glad everything worked out well for you.

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Good information. Thanks for telling us.

You can also use cheriky

Example:

xcopy /cheriky "C:\CopyFolderName\Folder Name w spaces" "D:\PasteFolderName"

The Y switch means it won't prompt for confirmation if overwriting a destination file.

newbie123 said:

Yes, I've been there...and will likely be there again at some future point! This forum family is among the best on the Internet for Windows support -- clear, thorough, and accurate tutorials on just about anything.

I should add a few points for anyone else trying this:

I added /c to the xcopy parameters -- it tells the system to continue copying even if it comes upon errors; useful in my case since some files were corrupt/unreadable.

If a folder in the path has a space in the name (i.e. is two or more separate letters or words), you need "quotes" around the path, since command prompt reads spaces as command termination points; I got errors a few times before looking that up.

So the final commands used went like this:

xcopy /e /i /h /k /c "C:\CopyFolderName\Folder Name w spaces" D:\PasteFolderName