Win XP Back Up asks for a floppy but I don't have an A: drive

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I have two questions I hope you can help me with.

1) Wth Win XP Back Up utility asks me to insert a floppy disk because it needs to create some kind of start up disk.
I don't have a floppy. Can I get the start disk to write to my CD or my removable drive (USB 64 MB Memory stick)?

2) Is the back up tool a good way to restore my machine to a previous state?
I just spent 2 days refomting and reinstalling software because scumware invaded my machine and ruined it performance.
All my Restore Points failed to restore. Will a complete system back up earase any spy-ware, viruses and pop-up junk that got into my machine after the system back up?

Thanks
Scott

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

The delivered MS Backup tool will not natively backup to CD, only
tape, floppy or zip is supported. You'll need a good 3rd party CD
writing tool/package to backup to CD. Personally I use Norton Ghost
to image the whole drive to another drive.

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I have two questions I hope you can help me with.

1) Wth Win XP Back Up utility asks me to insert a floppy disk

because it needs to create some kind of start up disk.

I don't have a floppy. Can I get the start disk to write to my CD

or my removable drive (USB 64 MB Memory stick)?

2) Is the back up tool a good way to restore my machine to a previous state?
I just spent 2 days refomting and reinstalling software because

scumware invaded my machine and ruined it performance.

All my Restore Points failed to restore. Will a complete system

back up earase any spy-ware, viruses and pop-up junk that got into my
machine after the system back up?