Ok this works great for listing whats in an individual directory:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196158
I'm running Vista and I just open up the command prompt and go to the directory I want and do the dir > filename.txt command and I get a neat little text file with everything in it.
2 problems though - I have to do it manually for each directory - and it doesn't drill down, only lists that directory.
is there a version of this command that I can run once at the root directory and capture all the detail of the drive into a txt file?
Reason being I want to know whats on my drives as I'm backing up all my stuff. I'm doing all my videos and music and whatnot and I want to make sure I have everything.
I generally just do to list view and click the date modified column and then copy any thing thats newer than whats on the backup drive.
However the reason I want to make this file dump is in case of a total harddrive failure. I generally know whats on this backup drive and i have originals and backup discs of course. But I want to make it easy to know what to recreate on a replacement drive should the need arise.
I plan on emailing this to myself so I'll have an offsite copy I can access.
I know this is probably way overprotective but I would like to have it so that I can make recreating the harddrive as easy as possible.
I suppose the best thing would be to clone this. But I already have over 700gbs on this 2tb drive. I don't want to buy yet another 2tb drive and spend hours dubbing the 2tb over to the extra spare.
Please note I'm making this a poor mans raid system. I make disc backups and a harddrive backup of the files I'm using. That way I am covered should something happen to them.
Your suggestions are welcomed. Otherwise for the time being I'll do this manually per directory as needed. Thanks.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196158
I'm running Vista and I just open up the command prompt and go to the directory I want and do the dir > filename.txt command and I get a neat little text file with everything in it.
2 problems though - I have to do it manually for each directory - and it doesn't drill down, only lists that directory.
is there a version of this command that I can run once at the root directory and capture all the detail of the drive into a txt file?
Reason being I want to know whats on my drives as I'm backing up all my stuff. I'm doing all my videos and music and whatnot and I want to make sure I have everything.
I generally just do to list view and click the date modified column and then copy any thing thats newer than whats on the backup drive.
However the reason I want to make this file dump is in case of a total harddrive failure. I generally know whats on this backup drive and i have originals and backup discs of course. But I want to make it easy to know what to recreate on a replacement drive should the need arise.
I plan on emailing this to myself so I'll have an offsite copy I can access.
I know this is probably way overprotective but I would like to have it so that I can make recreating the harddrive as easy as possible.
I suppose the best thing would be to clone this. But I already have over 700gbs on this 2tb drive. I don't want to buy yet another 2tb drive and spend hours dubbing the 2tb over to the extra spare.
Please note I'm making this a poor mans raid system. I make disc backups and a harddrive backup of the files I'm using. That way I am covered should something happen to them.
Your suggestions are welcomed. Otherwise for the time being I'll do this manually per directory as needed. Thanks.