Create emergency repair disk without floppy drive!

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I am trying to back up everything on a computer to an external USB drive,
but it has no floppy.
How can I get an image file of that so I can burn to a CD?
 
Mike said:
I am trying to back up everything on a computer to an external USB
drive, but it has no floppy.
How can I get an image file of that so I can burn to a CD?
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Get an imaging program? Duh
 
Acronis True Image does a great job at cloning/imaging/backing up.
BUT.....a CD is usually not large enough to image a whole HD to.
HD are not that expensive at this time and can be temporarily installed and
then removed for safe storage...or hooked up with an External USB device or
an Internal Removal Drive Cage.Just need to remember to keep the image up to
date.
The XP CD is bootable and most of the time is its own Fix-it/startup media.
peter
 
peter said:
Acronis True Image does a great job at cloning/imaging/backing up.
BUT.....a CD is usually not large enough to image a whole HD to.
HD are not that expensive at this time and can be temporarily installed and
then removed for safe storage...or hooked up with an External USB device or
an Internal Removal Drive Cage.Just need to remember to keep the image up to
date.
The XP CD is bootable and most of the time is its own Fix-it/startup media.
peter
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I am using xp's back up program
how can it create the boot floppy, if there is no floppy drive?
 
I am trying to back up everything on a computer to an external USB drive,
but it has no floppy.
How can I get an image file of that so I can burn to a CD?
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Your post isn't very clear. A floppy isn't needed to backup to an external
USB drive?

An image file of what?

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I am using xp's back up program
how can it create the boot floppy, if there is no floppy drive?
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Are you the OP? Next time shouldn't ask a question a reply to someone
else's post. Create a new thread with your question and include relevant
information.

I presume you are asking about the ASR - Automated System Recovery -
function in ntbackup for XP Pro. That must use a floppy, there is no way
around it. You could try using a external usb floppy. Otherwise use a
different backup program. I recommend Acronis true image to create a
compressed image of the drive and store that on an external USB drive.
 
Rock said:
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Are you the OP? Next time shouldn't ask a question a reply to someone
else's post. Create a new thread with your question and include relevant
information.

I presume you are asking about the ASR - Automated System Recovery -
function in ntbackup for XP Pro. That must use a floppy, there is no way
around it. You could try using a external usb floppy. Otherwise use a
different backup program. I recommend Acronis true image to create a
compressed image of the drive and store that on an external USB drive.
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Yes, I was the OP, just accessing from Google groups from work, not OE from
home.
Considering how floppies are going by the wayside, I'd think there would be
a way to create a ASR CD.
I got ahold of a USB CD & all worked fine.
 
"Rock"wrote

Yes, I was the OP, just accessing from Google groups from work, not OE
from home.
Considering how floppies are going by the wayside, I'd think there would
be a way to create a ASR CD.
I got ahold of a USB CD & all worked fine.
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ASR is from ntbackup which is a legacy app from Windows NT. It was not
updated to allow for anything other than a floppy disk, not will it be. As
I said there are much better backup solutions for recovering a system. The
recovery process using ASR is slow and awkward at best.

Glad the external usb floppy drive worked for you.
 
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