Question: How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all? Just like the cut and paste works: it doesn’t modify the file creation times at all.
Where to get such a program? I don’t want to lose the info when my files were created, and I don’t want to cut/paste the files on my new HDD since I want to leave a backup on this old disk in case the new one will fail.
Also this program should not stop the copying if there occurs some error like “are you sure you want to copy a read-only file?” or something like that.
Answer: Robocopy preserves timestamps by default. You can get it for XP in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit.
example:
robocopy C: E: /E
If you aren’t comfortable with the command line, Robocopy GUI makes it even easier.
Another copy utility which can preserve timestamps is XXCOPY:
