CinciDave said:
In using the Windows ASR Prep backup, the generation of a floppy disk with
the system setting aborts although the file backup procedure seems to go
ok.
My system is a 9 month old Dell 9150 with 1GB Ram running XP home.
I have no idea why I can't make the recovery disks as well. Any
suggestions
would be greatly appreciated
It's easy to recreate the ASR floppy. Just copy two files to it from the
backup file created by ntbackup. See this article.
How To Re-Create a Missing Automated System Recovery Floppy Disk in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299526/en-us
I had one system which at first created the ASR floppy just fine, and then
one day it wouldn't and didn't after that. I never figured out a fix for
it.
I found the ASR recovery process to be cumbersome, and not reliable. Years
ago I changed to a drive imaging program, currently that's Acronis True
Image Home, version 10, to image the drives to an external hard drive
connected by USB. It's fast and reliable, and recovery can be done on a
file, partition or drive basis.
There is no point in buying one of the pre-assembled external drives either.
It's much less cost to buy an EIDE hard drive in a white box kit, and an
external drive enclosure. Assembly is easy. You can get a 320 GB WD drive
for under $90. Enclosures are in the $20 area.