Preserving file create date?

To start off, I admit I'm a little compulsive about file timestamps.

I have a second drive in my computer that I want to repartition and reformat. It currently has all my audio/video/pictures and I want to keep all the timestamps intact. The closest I've come is with using 7zip. It preserves modification date, but when it's extracted the creation date is lost. I realize that resetting the creation date is "correct" behavior on a new file system, but is there any way I can save this data so everything looks exactly the same when I copy the data back?

robocopy can preserve timestamp information when copying files.

Change the time/date on your system clock when you copy them?

GoddersUK wrote:

Change the time/date on your system clock when you copy them?

That will just give all the files the same date. If each file has it's own create datestamp you'd want it to persists per file.

Harlequin wrote:



GoddersUK wrote: Change the time/date on your system clock when you copy them?

That will just give all the files the same date. If each file has it's own create datestamp you'd want it to persists per file.

That's easy to fix, just change the system clock for each file you copy.

borosen wrote:

That's easy to fix, just change the system clock for each file you copy.

Was just going to say that

Mind reader

AndyC wrote:

robocopy can preserve timestamp information when copying files.

Thanks, robocopy is awesome!