Laptop Emergency Disc.

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I have a new laptop. Have just installed a backup software. This suggests to
create an "Emergency Recovery Disc." This disc is 3.5" and contains some
DOS, some utilities and a driver for the CD, etc. Using this disc I can boot
the PC and then use the CD for recovery purposes.

My laptop does not have a 3.5" drive. How can I create/use a Recovery Disc
in these circumstances?

Peter.
 
PVR said:
I have a new laptop. Have just installed a backup software. This
suggests to create an "Emergency Recovery Disc." This disc is 3.5"
and contains some DOS, some utilities and a driver for the CD, etc.
Using this disc I can boot the PC and then use the CD for recovery
purposes.

My laptop does not have a 3.5" drive. How can I create/use a
Recovery Disc in these circumstances?
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By taking the laptop back and insisting on one with proper
facilities or all of your money back. The only way to quash this
eternal emasculation is to refuse them in the marketplace. Also
insist on proper serial and parallel ports.
 
I have a new laptop. Have just installed a backup software. This suggests to
create an "Emergency Recovery Disc." This disc is 3.5" and contains some
DOS, some utilities and a driver for the CD, etc. Using this disc I can boot
the PC and then use the CD for recovery purposes.

My laptop does not have a 3.5" drive. How can I create/use a Recovery Disc
in these circumstances?

Peter.
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Look in the installation folders for the software to see how
it goes about making (getting the files for) this recovery
floppy. Maybe there is just a folder with the files, or
maybe a floppy image that can be accessed with WinImage or
similar utilities. If you have the files you can
reconstruct a bootable CDR. Not knowing the specifics I
can't describe the exact procedure you'd need, but basically
you simply replicate what the floppy would do but on a CDR,
with it having a floppy emulation that loads dos and the
config.sys and autoexec.bat or however it's set up.

Failing all that, try making the floppy on a desktop system
that has a floppy drive, then use a CDRW drive to make a
bootable CDR using the floppy as the boot image (burning
software such as Nero supports this). Likely the boot
floppy is generic and could be made on any system, but be
sure to try the resultant CDR on the notebook to confirm
it's viability. After having made one working CDR you might
make a backup of it as an ISO (or your preferred backup
format).
 
You don't say what backup software you have, but Drive Image will
automatically create a bootable CD when you backup to the CD. No floppy
needed. It will also span multiple CDs.
 
Your laptop should have a CD writer. If so, you can buy a copy of Norton
Ghost for XP. You can then ghost your system over to CD disks. You can also
create an emergency ghost boot disk to get going again to do a recovery if
needed.

What I did, was buy myself a USB hard disk for mass storage. I also bought a
USB floppy drive for the laptop. This allowed me to have full flexibility.
The laptop can boot from any device, since it has been properly setup to do
so.

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Jerry G.
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I have a new laptop. Have just installed a backup software. This suggests to
create an "Emergency Recovery Disc." This disc is 3.5" and contains some
DOS, some utilities and a driver for the CD, etc. Using this disc I can boot
the PC and then use the CD for recovery purposes.

My laptop does not have a 3.5" drive. How can I create/use a Recovery Disc
in these circumstances?

Peter.
 
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