robocopy is supplied with win2008 - I think win2003 might have still had good ole xcopy with robocopy in the resource kit, but I'd certainly argue that robocopy wasn't a third party utility though, just like sc etc. Niall On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: However, this is really pretty useless for the OP, since he said "no third party utilities" -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info