This did not work when I ran the batch as an administrator, but when I swapped over to running it normally like in the initial attempts it did work funny enough. Thank you! the backup executable was made and looks like I can continue on the next steps! Thanks again boss!
I'm following the steps of the Kotor 1 full mod build and using Xuul's widescreen guide. I tried both moving the swkotor executable to the hires folder and moving the hi-res bat, exe, and pl folders to the main swkotor directy and the message comes up every time.