Organizing my hard drives

[Tom Dunlap]

When I got my new desktop my geek, I use that term with great respect, brought my old C drive aboard as my F drive. That has been nice but it leads to a mess when I'm trying to find things. I want to get things tidied up.

Is there a way to print out the the file structures of both drives? I'd like to have all of the files expanded so that I have a printed map of the whole works. Then I'll move things around. As it is, some of my more used files are down several layers. It's much easier to work with the more used files higher in the structure.

I know there's a way to do it in DOS but I'm not the person to know how to do that without the directions written out for me.

Thanks for any help.

 

[davespencer]

Tom,

In XP, click on my computer and there is a button beside search called folders. Click that and expand what you want by clicking the plus signs. I don't think there is an easy way to print it but you can press print screen and it will copy the screen to the clip board, you can paste it into almost any software to print. If it goes off the screen you can do multiple copy / paste or get a trial version of "snag-it" screen capture (just google it). Snag it will capture an entire window if it scrolls down off the page.

Dave

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Thanks Dave, I'll try that. I posted the same question on a woodworking forum that has great team feeling like TB and connected with someone who has given me a good direction into using "tree" in DOS. If I can't muddle my way through the mapping she said that I can call her for help. I told her that I would return the favor with any tree questions she might have. I love barter

 

[RescueMan]

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someone has given me a good direction into using "tree" in DOS.

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Tom,

If you're running Windows XP, find CMD.exe (in C:\windows\system32) and click on that to get into DOS. You will then be in a black screen and in the directory C:\windows\system32.

Type this:
tree/f F: > prn

The "tree" command will show only subdirectories and not files unless you include the "switch" /f.

The "F:" tells it to search the F drive.

The "> prn" tells it to redirect the output to the printer.

That should do it. When you're done printing, type "exit" to return to windows.

Let me know how it works.

- Robert (started programming mainframe computers when I was in high school)