Microsoft tells us to creat ASR on the floopy disk. Can I creat it on the
USB flash drive?

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Thank you for your help!

The backup program does not allow you to redirect the ASR file to anywhere
else. It says floppy - use a floppy. Remember, 5 years ago when XP was new,
USB thumb drives didn't exist and all computers had floppy drives.

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"smith" <@discussion.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft tells us to creat ASR on the floopy disk. Can I creat it on the
> USB flash drive?
>
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> Thank you for your help!
>

smith wrote:
> Microsoft tells us to creat ASR on the floopy disk. Can I create it
> on the USB flash drive?

Richard Urban wrote:
> The backup program does not allow you to redirect the ASR file to
> anywhere else. It says floppy - use a floppy. Remember, 5 years ago
> when XP was new, USB thumb drives didn't exist and all computers
> had floppy drives.

Thumb drives existed.
They were just MUCH smaller in capacity (8MB to maybe 64MB?) and they cost
more than most sane people would spend on it. ;-)

In other words - were not common, so Microsoft just left the standard floppy
drive in the equation. Then two years later everyone started asking,
"Aren't floppy disk drives obsolete by now?" *grin*

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"smith" <@discussion.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft tells us to creat ASR on the floopy disk. Can I creat it on the
> USB flash drive?


No, it can only use a floppy.

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