Rawccopy is a one-to-one port of rawcopy to C. The command line is exactly the same as the original rawcopy and the behaviour of the two programs is virtually identical.
For some reason, rawcopy started generating false positives in virus scanners and this became very annoying. In the beginning the problem could be circumvented by locally compiling it, but in the end even that didn't work.
The command line is exactly the same as documented here and the specification of the programs are almost identical. The differences are:
- rawccopy supports links, ie it is able to follow links such as
c:\Users\All Users->c:\ProgramData - rawccopy correctly supports compressed files, where rawcopy, doesn't handle all of them correctly;
Download the source code and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. The community version is OK. Then simply build the version you need (x64 or x86).
If you have GUI-phobia, you can always type:
msbuild rawccopy.sln /p:Configuration=release /p:Platform=x64 for a 64 bit build and
msbuild rawccopy.sln /p:Configuration=release /p:Platform=x86 for a 32 bit build.
msbuild is not in your $PATH variable, so you will need to locate it in one of the Visual Studio folders.
Rawccopy should work on Windows XP and higher, both 32 and 64 bit. Like rawcopy, it needs to be run with administrator privileges and can only work on NTFS volumes.