Backing Up Win XP Hard Drive Complete with Ntbackup

[Guest]

I have an external ntfs drive with 80 gig of storage. I am trying to backup a
WIN xp hard drive with 30 gig on info on it.

If I choose to back up documents it works fine. But when I try to back up
the entire hard drive in the Wizard I get this error message.

Backup Status The files for the recovery diskette could not be created. The
operation was aborted. The operation did not successfully complete.

It seems to be looking for a "floppy." I don't have a floppy drive on my
computer but I do have a CD drive. When I ran the backup I had a formated CD
in the drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks...

John Maulding

 

[Guest]

Read about Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows or NTBackup
Help. It needs a floppy to recover your system after a complete
failure. You may want to consider buying an external USB floppy drive.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem and I do have a floppy drive...any suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian

 

[frodo]

One note: ASR will only restore if running XP Pro - XP Home can NOT do
the ASR restore. The backup will go fine, but it simply won't do the
restore - don't get burned.