How to do evilness to the CPU, PCI bus, IDE controller and disks

[torkell]

How to do evilness to the CPU, PCI bus, IDE controller and disks:

XCOPY C:\Backup\C "H:\Recovered from dead drive" /S /E /C /I /H /R /K /O /X /-Y
where C:\Backup\C contains about 20 gigs worth of files, and both that folder and the H: drive have NTFS compression (that folder because it's rarely-used and compression makes sense, H: because it's just under 20GB in size - the compression takes it down to ~14GB which is pretty decent).

Comments

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

if you want evil to the cpu, go look at some of the pics in my tsunited user area...

but yes, that looks rather nasty....the type of nasty you start and leave

[torkell]

Remember that 350MB photoshop file I once made?

[olego.livejournal.com]

/-Y? So you have to analyse each overwrite? That ought to put a pause in your copying. :-)

[torkell]

The target folder didn't exist (hence the /I), but I just typed in my usual "copy everything, regardless of what's in the destination or what errors may occur".