Is this XP Pro or XP Home? You cannot use ASR backups to restore XP
Home Edition, it works with the Professional version only. Also, while
you can make the ASR backup without a floppy diskette, (the Asr.sif and
Asrpnp.sif files can be extracted from the ASR backup set), you cannot
do a restore without a floppy diskette, the Asr.sif and Asrpnp.sif files
*must* be supplied on a floppy diskette, the ASR program will not accept
them from any other media source. You could use one of the USB floppy
drives that is recognized by the Setup/ASR program, otherwise you will
have to use another bare metal restore strategy.
John