Gaming XP to 7

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The files that are in use are more then likely windows system files you won't need. Just ignore them and copy the rest that can be copied.

It just cancels the copy, no option to skip

Well that sucks. I forgot only Vista and 7 have that feature.

You could try running command prompt and copying the files with xcopy.
Something like the following command should work. c:\ is the source drive it'll copy from and d:\ is the destination drive, so change those parts accordingly. The rest of the command should be fine. It's set to ignore errors in copying, copy directories and sub directories (except empty ones), copy hidden and system files and copy read only files.

xcopy c:\ d:\ /c/h/e/r/k/y/s

 

[Tokiopop]

The files that are in use are more then likely windows system files you won't need. Just ignore them and copy the rest that can be copied.

It just cancels the copy, no option to skip

Well that sucks. I forgot only Vista and 7 have that feature.

You could try running command prompt and copying the files with xcopy.
Something like the following command should work. c:\ is the source drive it'll copy from and d:\ is the destination drive, so change those parts accordingly. The rest of the command should be fine. It's set to ignore errors in copying, copy directories and sub directories (except empty ones), copy hidden and system files and copy read only files.

xcopy c:\ d:\ /c/h/e/r/k/y/s

I've just manually picked my files, and used this sweet software that finds all your game saves and backs them up, which I'll be restoring after I install Windows 7.

Just a quick question before I do wipe it, I backed up all my Steam games, taking up around 35GBs. It compressed them, and put them into 5 'disks'. But they're all in the L4D2 folder, and are all named L4D2. Now I know L4D2 doesn't take up 35 gigs, is this just a bug, but really all my games are backed up? It would be a real pain to have to download them all again with BT as my ISP.