Copy & Disk Management Commands

• Copy – Copies files from one folder to another.
• xcopy – Copies folders, subfolders and all the files within them.
• robocopy – A more advanced copy task than xcopy that can handle connection failures.
• chkdsk – Scans a disk to recover corrupted files.
• Chkdsk /f fixes errors on the disk.
• Chkdsk /r thoroughly fixes bad sectors on the hard drive and tries to recover readable information.
• Format d: /fs:ntfs will format the drive as ntfs.
• Format /q Performs a quick format.
• Format /q /fs:fat32 /q will quick format the D drive as fat32.
• Convert: Changes from FAT/FAT32 filesystem to NTFS without erasing files.
• Convert /fs specifies that the volume will be converted to NTFS.
• A volume is a logical drive which has a single file system.
• Diskpart – A command line partition management tool.
• Quick format: Delete the data and change the file system.
• Standard format: Remove data by overwriting its contents and checks drive for bad sectors.