command prompt question....

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Hey people o/

Have a quick question, and I'm sure I'll get the answer here

I'm using the Mike Mayers book and professor messers videos to study. Now, I'm watching messers video on the command prompt and I'm trying to follow what he does in the video at the same time with my command line.

Now, at just after 8 mins into the video he copies his ntldr file into the temp file he has created, but when I try the same i get the message 'The system cannot find the file specified'

any help would be greatly aprreciated

Tallbloke o/

 

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Ensure you are running command prompt as administrator to have the proper permissions.

 

do you mean you are just trying to copy a file in the command prompt?

if so then just navigate to the folder the file is in and check it is in there, do it either in windows or at prompt...

cd\<whereever>

and then,

DIR /P

if the file is definitely in there then you should be able to move it like...

copy myfile.txt tempfolder

Make sure you have spelt it correctly and use the file extension.

Hope that helps.
Dom

 

omg i did it!!

Thanks for the help Although I have a feeling i'll be back

Cheers o//

 

A little tip that I didn't even know until I started playing around with it- the Tab key comes in use in small folders

 

ok instead of xcopy my command line says I should use the updated robocopy which I have been and I like it. My problem now is the switch /o that used to retain all the permissions of the files, what is this switch in robocopy because it's not the same anymore.

 

i don't think there is any switch needed, i think it copies over permissions by default.

We used it when setting up out new File Server, can't remember using a switch if there was one, try it out and see.

 

Rightyo thanks Daniel.