ASR without a floppy drive?

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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.
 
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]
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| 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.
 
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?
 
Steve said:
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.
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AFAIK, no. There is no way around the need for the ASR files on floppy.
 
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.
 
Grumble69 said:
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.
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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.
 
So you might want to save your incredulity and just deal with the fact that is
the way it is.
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I guess so. I sometimes forget that this is the "copy-n-paste"
generation as opposed to working on something original.
 
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