ASR without a floppy drive?

[Steve J.]

I need to run an ASR back up on a notebook computer which
has no floppy drive. Is there a way to do this? The
machine does have a CD-RW - could I create a CD-ROM to
serve in the floppy disk's place?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

When you run Backup to create an ASR backup it asks for a floppy at the end
of the process. I am unsure of how you could get around this. You might have
to purchase a third party app that will enable you to save to CD-R/W and
will create a CD boot disk. I have tried several imaging programs over the
past few years and have settled on Acronis TrueImage.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


| I need to run an ASR back up on a notebook computer which
| has no floppy drive. Is there a way to do this? The
| machine does have a CD-RW - could I create a CD-ROM to
| serve in the floppy disk's place?
|
| Thanks in advance for any insights.

 

[Guest]

I was able to create the floppy by copying the asr.sif and asrpnp.sif files
to another machine with a floppy drive. I just don't know if that will do me
any good in the event I need to restore the system. I can, of course, burn
them to a CD but would I be able to boot the notebook from that CD?

 

[Rock]

I need to run an ASR back up on a notebook computer which
has no floppy drive. Is there a way to do this? The
machine does have a CD-RW - could I create a CD-ROM to
serve in the floppy disk's place?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

AFAIK, no. There is no way around the need for the ASR files on floppy.

 

[Grumble69]

I find it absolutely bizarre that ASR is totally dependent on a floppy
drive when these are being phased out of today's systems. Some would
even argue that XP Pro snubbed floppy hardware by not really
supporting it. I still can't get it to read most dadgum floppy disks.
It does recognize the floppy drive however. And there is nothing
wrong with the floppies since I can read them on other machines using
an older OS.

Call me crazy, but all we should really need is our Windows CD to run
ASR and the backed-up file.

 

[Rock]

I find it absolutely bizarre that ASR is totally dependent on a floppy
drive when these are being phased out of today's systems. Some would
even argue that XP Pro snubbed floppy hardware by not really
supporting it. I still can't get it to read most dadgum floppy disks.
It does recognize the floppy drive however. And there is nothing
wrong with the floppies since I can read them on other machines using
an older OS.

Call me crazy, but all we should really need is our Windows CD to run
ASR and the backed-up file.

The ASR function is part of NTbackup which is a carry over from when it
was in the NT OS. It was not updated to be a modern program. So you
might want to save your incredulity and just deal with the fact that is
the way it is. There are many other better backup solutions.

 

[Grumble69]

So you might want to save your incredulity and just deal with the fact that is

the way it is.

I guess so. I sometimes forget that this is the "copy-n-paste"
generation as opposed to working on something original.