How To XCOPY

You may use XCOPY without any difficulty in Windows 95/98/ME.
Connect the second hard drive (HD), for speeding purpose, as Secondary Master. You may also use 80 conductor IDE cable if the HDs are ATA66 or higher.
Boot to Windows and navigate to DOS Prompt. Then use the following command at the root directory (C:).

Xcopy *.* /s/h/e/c/k/y/r D:

D: is the drive letter of your second HD.

XCOPY can be used for Windows 2K/XP but this is more complex. Please post a comment if you need more information.

Adding to the previous answer....
XCOPY is a DOS command, therefore it does not recognize long file names. It will truncate file name, but if it turns out you have duplicate truncated names you will lose some files. There is a way to prevent this from happening before the XCOPY, and then restoring the long file names after the XCOPY and it's using the command LFNBK.

You might want to give XXcopy a try.

http://www.xxcopy.com/index.html#pagetop

Unless I am looking to clone a drive, I simply install the target drive in a hot-swap bay, and use Windows Explorer to drop and drag the files I desire to copy to the drive.

Chas

xcopy32 /c /h /e /k /r /f
and you have to do it from dos prompt within windows because all the switches not available in dos version of xcopy32
go to command prompt, type xcopy32 /? and see what the switches do. this works to clone drive. you will have to take steps to make it bootable like sys it

If you are wanting to use the XCOPY commands to copy from hdd to hdd. You may like to go to this web site, it can explain what switch will do what in the xcopy syntax.
http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm

u can use either xcopy or xcopy32.exe
systex is
from dos mode
xcopy/s/e/h sourcepath *.* destination path
s - subdirectory
e - empty directory
h - hide files
example c:\xcopy/s/e/h c:\*.* d:\name of folder
*.* all files
u no need to create, when u give the folder name
it'll create folder and copy all file in it.