How to run robocopy without copying extended attribute information?

Question

Hi,

I have a bat script that copies certain information from a computer to a USB hard drive using Robocopy. The FAT hard drive is formatted and therefore does not support directories with extended attributes, which results in a robocop 282 error as described here .

How do I tell robocopy to copy all EXCEPT attribute information for extensible attributes?

I still need help, but some useful info from googling-ive made so far

• Robocopy command line options: http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
• What is an extended file attribute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes
• Windows Hotfix (which would be great if I did not copy to the USB hard drive): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329145/en-us

EDIT: Wow, the file system is not FAT, I was wrong. Its RAW.

Answer 1

I found that I got error 282 when copying directories using robocopy. So I used xcopy with / T / E to create a directory structure. Then I was able to use robocpy to copy all files without errors.

Answer 2

Converting a FAT USB hard drive to NTFS using the conversion command (converting in this direction will not delete data): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx

eg:

convert e: /fs:ntfs