How to Copy Data from Host to Named Volume on Windows

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

I have just found this topic. I am going to close it, since we discussed it in a newer topic. Please, don’t create multiple topics for the same question and don’t post into the “Community” category unless you have question “about” the community (I moved it to Docker DEsktop for Windows).

How to Copy Data from Host to Named Volume on Docker for Windows with Windows Containers

I am trying to copy existing data from my host machine into a Windows Volume. I have found instructions that work for linux, but not on windows. Here are the linux instructions, as found here: docker container create --name dummy -v myvolume:/root hello-world docker cp c:\myfolder\myfile.txt dummy:/root/myfile.txt docker rm dummy On Windows, I have to change the volume declaration to: docker container create --name dummy -v myvolume:C:/root hello-world Otherwise, I get this error message: E…