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How do I copy folders to another drive and maintain the Date Created attribute?

I need to copy about 200 folders to another drive and I need to retain the date created and date modified attributes. I'm running Windows 8.1. How do I accomplish this?

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John

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John Carney

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Thanks Mahesh and Akashay K. Am I correct in assuming that RoboCopy is not a brand name but rather a free app from Microsoft?

If so, do I type something into a command prompt? Or in a "robocopy' dialog box? And how would I copy not the whole drive but one folder only with 200 subfolders, and would it retain the dates on all subfolders. In my case it would be "Cakewalk Projects" on my C drive to my J Drive. How would i write that?

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John

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Thanks, everyone!

becraig, so is this exactly what I enter into the command line: ROBOCOPY "C:\Cakewalk Projects" J:\ /MIR /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T ? And that's it?