no floppy drive for backup floppy boot

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I went to backup my system and find that I need a floppy disk save to?

My machine is a Dell 4700 C which does not come with a floppy drive.

How do I do this?

Thank You
 
Hi,

Are you trying to make an ASR backup disk? If so, a removable USB floppy
drive is a cheap alternative.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I went to backup my system
How?

and find that I need a floppy disk save to?

My machine is a Dell 4700 C which does not come with a floppy drive.

How do I do this?

Thank You
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brunetto said:
I went to backup my system and find that I need a floppy disk save to?

My machine is a Dell 4700 C which does not come with a floppy drive.

How do I do this?

Thank You
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Using Ntbackup, ASR requires a floppy. There is no way around it. Look
into other backup solutions. There are a variety of good ones out
there. One option is a drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost,
Acronis True Image or Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows or BootIt
Next Generation.
 
I went to backup my system and find that I need a floppy disk save to?

My machine is a Dell 4700 C which does not come with a floppy drive.

How do I do this?

Thank You
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What do you want to back up exactly? If it is just *YOUR* files (i.e.
user created files) try a free program like Abakt.

A warning about "system" type backups (incl using Ghost type
programs): if there are any problems and/or nasties in your system,
all you'll be doing is backing them up to perpetuate the problem with
any restore you do.

Personally, I'm not a great fan of post-software installation backups
or imaging/ghosting. If a system deteriorates to such an extent that a
system restore is required, it really is time to think about a format
& clean (re)install. FWIW
 
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