Noting files on an External Hard Drive

jayteecork

Hi all,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes:

I have an EHD full of AVI format files, and I want to know exactly what I have in there, without having to get a pen and paper and go through them all individually,
Is it possible to "scan" the folder and "print/copy/paste" out a list of the file names somewhere? prehaps onto notepad?

I'd appreciate and responses.
Thanks.

ressem

Press the windows key together with R, to bring up the run dialog.

In the dialog box that appears in the bottom left of the screen,
type

cmd

In the black window that appears type

dir /S /B e: > c:\yourremovabledrivelist.txt

Change the "E:" to whatever your external drive path is.
This will create a file at the location c:\yourremovabledrivelist.txt
which can be opened with notepad or whatever, containing every unhidden file under E:, including location.

jayteecork

Thanks much ressem.
However I did everything you stated above but was met with an "access is denied" message.
Any ideas?

Sherifu

What's your OS?

jayteecork

Vista 32 Bit Home Premium.

yoyo

Run the CMD application as admininstrator, start>search cmd and right click the result andrun as admin, then follow ressems suggestion

Nick

Sherifu

Are you using an admin command prompt?, that's probably what's giving you the error.

jayteecork

Savage Lads.
that did the trick. Exactly what I wanted.

jayteecork

One more thing.
I'm trying to do the same thing with a folder on my actual computer harddrive.
I'm entering "dir /S /B c:\Users\**My Name**\Desktop\Media > c:medialist.txt"
However I get the message "system cannot find the path specified"

Any ideas?
Thanks

yoyo

Try:
dir /S /B desktop\Media > c:medialist.txt

Mite work, not sure though...

Nick

Sherifu

try C:\Users\Public\desktop\Media

hefty_langer

you are leaving out the '\' after c:
dir /S /B c:\Users\**My Name**\Desktop\Media > c:\medialist.txt

yoyo

Doh How did i miss that!

Nick