It's not really Mac related but I thought maybe someone here could help 
Okay, so I've got a friend's dead computer that won't boot properly into Windows- I can get it in to Safe Mode with Command Prompt though.
Strangely, I can't boot off any of my Knoppix disks.
I've got an external drive hooked up, and he's got one huge directory with many, many gigs of files, more than the old external drive can hold.
To be specific, there is one folder ("Music") which contains hundreds of other directories (bands) each of which contains a few files.
So, I try to copy the whole thing, but it only gets halfway through (copies everything through the letter R) before it runs out of space. No big deal, I take it to my PC, copy everything to the PC, wipe the drive again, and hook it back up.
Here's the problem. If I try to copy the whole folder again, it'll only copy the first half (letters A-R) which I already have on the other PC now.
Is there a way to copy in reverse alphabetical order, or a way to copy every folder starting with a letter (trying xcopy *s E:\ /s only results in it copying every FILE with the letter s, not every folder), or a way to delete every folder starting with a letter?
There's too many folders for me to manually delete one by one or manually copy one by one.
Thanks!
Okay, so I've got a friend's dead computer that won't boot properly into Windows- I can get it in to Safe Mode with Command Prompt though.
Strangely, I can't boot off any of my Knoppix disks.
I've got an external drive hooked up, and he's got one huge directory with many, many gigs of files, more than the old external drive can hold.
To be specific, there is one folder ("Music") which contains hundreds of other directories (bands) each of which contains a few files.
So, I try to copy the whole thing, but it only gets halfway through (copies everything through the letter R) before it runs out of space. No big deal, I take it to my PC, copy everything to the PC, wipe the drive again, and hook it back up.
Here's the problem. If I try to copy the whole folder again, it'll only copy the first half (letters A-R) which I already have on the other PC now.
Is there a way to copy in reverse alphabetical order, or a way to copy every folder starting with a letter (trying xcopy *s E:\ /s only results in it copying every FILE with the letter s, not every folder), or a way to delete every folder starting with a letter?
There's too many folders for me to manually delete one by one or manually copy one by one.
Thanks!