Transferring songs through Command prompt

Hello. I decided to restore my pc as im having a few problems with it at the moment but before i do that i want to transfer my music onto an external hard drive but one of my problems is that i can not access my desktop. so i would like to know whether i can transfer songs from my music file to an external HD using command prompt?
Thanks

xcopy just might be the most common command using the command line.

If you don't feel like clicking a link, basically: cmd> xcopy "C:\Path\*.mp3" "D:\Path\"
Feel free to change the *.mp3 to *.* in order to copy everything in that specific folder (if you've got anything other than just mp3's). This is assuming C is the internal hard drive and D is the external.