Copying folders in Windows

Question

I have the following folders on a Windows machine

C:\FolderToCopy

C:\Dest

Both folders are empty.

I want to execute a copy operation from a command prompt so that I have this in the end:

C:\FolderToCopy

C:\Dest\FolderToCopy

In other words, I want to copy FolderToCopy so that it is now in the C:\Dest folder.

I know this should be easy - I do this often enough from the UI - but nothing I try seems to work.

Answer 1

robocopy C:\FolderToCopy\ C:\Dest\FolderToCopy /E

Answer 2

XCOPY /S /Y C:\FolderToCopy C:\Dest\

The last slash is important.

Answer 3

Copy C:\FolderToCopy\. C:\Dest\FolderToCopy