Create ASR with a "floppy"?

[doug.masters]

Poked around, don't see the question posed.

My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
something other than a floppy?

 

[Richard Urban]

No!

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[Jim]

Poked around, don't see the question posed.

My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
something other than a floppy?

No, but it will work on an external floppy drive using a USB port.
Jim

 

[Guest]

Win XP uses your operating system cd as a boot disk. You might have to change
boot order in the bios. No need for floppies.

 

[Larry Samuels]

Sorry,but that is incorrect
ASR only works from a floppy disk.

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[Richard Urban]

An ASR (Automatic System Restore) backup certainly "does" need a floppy. It
was not designed to work without one.

Remember, when XP came out about 4 years ago, everyone had floppy drives.
There was no consideration made to do it (ASR backup) any other way.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

For what its worth, I tried using a USB floppy a couple of days ago and it
did not work. The computer was a Dell Latitude D600.