Automatic System Recovery

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I am attempting to do an ASR backup, restore.

I am attempting to do it to my notebook, which uses a USB floppy drive.
When I am prompted for the recovery disk, Windows is unable to locate my
floppy, and of course the restore fails. I assume it is because USB
device drivers have not been installed at this point.

Does anyone have a work around for this problem.

Thanks, Gary.
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I know it sounds daft, but do a minimal install of windows and then just use
the windows backup utility to restore the ASR backup you have on your hard
drive.

Andy
 
Andrew said:
I know it sounds daft, but do a minimal install of windows and then just use
the windows backup utility to restore the ASR backup you have on your hard
drive.
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I tried that, but it doesn't work.


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Regrettably, ASR is one of several functions in Windows that *still*
(unbelievably) requires a floppy, a standard floppy that is, USB will not
qualify UNLESS that USB floppy perhaps can be mapped by your laptop BIOS to
a standard floppy (not common, but perhaps possible). It's why I still, to
this day, ALWAYS keep a cheap standard floppy on every system. It's a pain
we have to support this antiquated device, but it's an even bigger pain when
you HAVE to have it and don't!

Here are couple more examples of why the standard floppy isn't dead:
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=397

So I don't think there's a workaround (it's hard to even find worlarounds
for the other cases). But with some persistent Googling, who knows, you may
find somebody who's tackled the problem and found a solution.

Jim
 
Jim said:
Regrettably, ASR is one of several functions in Windows that *still*
(unbelievably) requires a floppy, a standard floppy that is, USB will not
qualify UNLESS that USB floppy perhaps can be mapped by your laptop BIOS to
a standard floppy (not common, but perhaps possible). It's why I still, to
this day, ALWAYS keep a cheap standard floppy on every system. It's a pain
we have to support this antiquated device, but it's an even bigger pain when
you HAVE to have it and don't!
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Thanks for the bad news.... <g>

I explored the BIOS option, but since it is a laptop there are few
adjustable functions.

Gary.
 
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