How do you create an Emergency Repair Disk on machines without floppy drives?

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Graham Brown

I want to be able to create emaergency repair disks but my
machines do no have Floppy drives. I do not want to have
to buy USB floppy drives... All the machines do have cd
burners.

Also, even if I do get ERD onto CD, will windows accept
the cd instead of a disk when I need to use it?

Graham
 
Hi,

Yes, provided that the boot sequence of your CD-rom is
ahead of the harddisk and your CDR is formatted to
bootable. You can change the boot sequence in BIOS under
the boot tab.
Also review the manual of your buring rom for how to
create a bootable CDR.

Peter
 
Well actually I do not need to boot from cd rom. I
actually want to create an emergency repair disk but onto
CD not floppy.

When it comes that I need the ERD windows asks to insert a
floppy, I want it to read from a cd.
 
Has any of you tried to create an ERD in window xp ?

ERD is not available in XP, floppy disk drives I guess are now "legacy
devices". The files to create a set of XP installation disks, were not
included on the retail cd like they were for 2000, but were made available
for download, as an after thought.

You can still secure the stuff you need using NT backup and use the recovery
console to restore it.

See the Windows XP Resource Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prmc_str_bjid.asp

You'll see near the bottom it states that erd is no longer an option as it
was in nt4.0 and 2k

Paul
 
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