How to copy a folder via cmd

Question

I want to make a  bat file that when opened will copy a folder and all it contains into another folder on another partition  Here is exactly what I am trying to do   Copy C  Documents and Settings user Desktop           and all it contains to D  Backup  I have tried with many xcopy commands but without result  Thanks   I launched the command prompt with  k and saw this    which made me think there is a problem with the font  I installed new font that should fix this  YGP NT  but I am having the same problem  yes  I changed it from the cmd Properties  edited the TrueTypeFont with regedit and restarted the PC   I can write in cyrillic in the cmd if that can help

User · Answer

xcopy   C  Documents and Settings user Desktop             D  Backup   s  e  y  i   Probably the problem is the space Try with quotes

User · Answer

xcopy   userprofile  Desktop             D  Backup    s h e k f c   should work  assuming that your language setting allows Cyrillic  or you use Unicode fonts in the console    For reference about the arguments  http   ss64 com nt xcopy html

User · Answer

xcopy  e  source folder f  destination folder  e  i  h   The  h is just in case there are hidden files  The  i creates a destination folder if there are muliple source files

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