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hard disk backup, have no diskettes!!

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by sapnakori, 2006/05/21.

  1. 2006/05/21
    sapnakori

    sapnakori Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Need some urgent help here...
    I took the backup of my whole system, but in the end of the backup process, it asked me for a floppy drive !!!!:confused:
    And my system does not have a floppy drive. :eek:
    What should I do?

    Can I put that info in a quick USB drive? if so, will I be able to use it for recovery process? if not what should I do?

    Thanks in Advance, please help!!:confused:
    Sapna:(
     
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  2. 2006/05/21
    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni

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    Hello Sapna and welcome to the board :)

    What backup process are you using? Floppy backup these days is not practical, a floppy holds1.44 MBs as opposed to a CD which holds 600 ~ 700 MBs or DVD which holds 4.7 GB, double that if dual layer.

    Do you have a CD or DVD rewriter on your system?

    A flash drive ( "quick usb drive ") is not big enough either, they range for 64MBs to 2 GBs and very expensive once you get into the GB range.

    Regards - Charles
     
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  4. 2006/05/21
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Sapna

    From what you describe you have made an ASR backup - Automatic System Recovery using Backup - is that correct? This writes information concerning your system to a floppy which is read when an Automated System Recovery is made at some time in the future.

    If you do not have a floppy drive you cannot make an ASR backup - the floppy drive is required to write and again to use that information in the event that you need to make an ASR recovery by booting from the installation CD and inserting the floppy when asked.

    You have two options - get hold of an external floppy drive or use an imaging program such as Norton Ghost to create a ghost image of your drive. You clearly have more than one partition or drive as ASR will not, for obvious reasons back up to the same partition or drive that the system you are backing up is on.
     
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