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Hi all,
I had a hard drive problem and some of my files were damaged.
I have a backup but from the damaged drive I can still get some information.
So i need to build a script to analize my drive and copy all the content to my backup disk.
The problem is using
xcopy source destination /s /d
I get all the files on the orignal hard drive overwriting the backup files, even the damaged ones with 0 byte size...

So I need first to find and delete those 0 byte files and then copy all the others.

Can you help me?

Thanks! I've seen it already but i need it to go throug all the folders and first I wanto to run it in "test mode", like creating a text file with all before deleting them.

Have you read the help for the DIR, FOR and FORFILES commands. All of them have options to recurse into subdirectories.

If you are serious about data recovery, and you only have one backup, then you first need to create a second copy of the backup drive - in case the other hard drive fails or becomes corrupted too.

Copying files from a damaged drive onto your only backup is foolish, and from what you've said this is what you plan to do.




I would also make a copy of the damaged drive onto another hard drive too - if it has more up to date files than your backup has.

They are often put in the "temporary internet files" by some program and when trying to delete an old user profile it prevents the deletion.