No floppy drive on laptop

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Jack Gillis

My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Thank you.
 
Jack said:
My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:
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Return it, and buy something with a reasonable set of
peripherals. These include a floppy drive and a proper serial
port (not one driven by USB).
 
Jack Gillis said:
My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Thank you.
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get an external, USB, floppy drive
 
CBFalconer said:
Return it, and buy something with a reasonable set of
peripherals. These include a floppy drive and a proper serial
port (not one driven by USB).

--
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office
in foreign policy matters with war on my mind." - Bush.
"If I knew then what I know today, I would still have invaded
Iraq. It was the right decision" - G.W. Bush, 2004-08-02
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snip

and a proper serial port (not one driven by USB)

??????????? where does the poster say it does not have one.

and don't be so aggressive either.........

toy
 
Toy said:
get an external, USB, floppy drive
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Yes, that is certainly a solution. From what I can see, more and more
people are in the same situation of not having a floppy on their new
machines -- especially laptops. I wonder when software vendors will
follow up on this. I know of one vendor that used to send additions and
updates only on floppies but now recognizes the need for providing them
on CD's. A step in the right directions.
 
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