How to make a "cast" of the structure of the windows file system?

Question

Windows

There are a lot of files and folders on the railway, a lot of all sorts of useful (in theory) stuff.
In case of loss or failure of the hard drive, I will not be able to remember all these files / books / programs.
Therefore, I want to make a "cast" of the entire file system, but, of course, not the files / folders themselves (and the space they occupy), but simply their structure and content. Who knows how and why?

Answer 1

Here are some more options to those listed:
1. There is a program " Where Is It " - a universal and probably one of the best catalogers, the purpose of which is clearly read in the name itself: the program is used to create and work with a large number of files (both with data and and with music), including HDD, CD, DVD and network drives. Where Is It? creates a detailed list of all files with description, parameters and preview pictures. There are rich possibilities for sorting and searching, there is a built-in report generator, it supports working with almost all types of media files and archives.
2. Using total commander - there are plugins :
- CDDataBase is a plug-in designed to organize and catalog your CD collection, including CDs, hard drives, MP3 drives, removable drives... for fast searching and navigation.
- there were others, but I can’t find it anymore (Google to the rescue :) )

Answer 2

contents of folders or contents of files?
if the first - in the total commander there is "copy full paths to files", search all over *,* and then copy
if the second - look at Acronis products

Answer 3

robocopy Z:\ X:\disk-z\ /create /e
Slice drive Z with zero-length folders and files