- Create ASR with a "floppy"?
- Posted by doug.masters@gmail.com on October 22nd, 2005
Poked around, don't see the question posed.
My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
something other than a floppy?
- Posted by Richard Urban on October 22nd, 2005
No!
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
<doug.masters@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129996201.028229.242730@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Poked around, don't see the question posed.
>
> My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
> drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
> something other than a floppy?
>
- Posted by Jim on October 22nd, 2005
<doug.masters@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129996201.028229.242730@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Poked around, don't see the question posed.
>
> My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
> drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
> something other than a floppy?
>
No, but it will work on an external floppy drive using a USB port.
Jim
- Posted by Mary on October 22nd, 2005
Win XP uses your operating system cd as a boot disk. You might have to change
boot order in the bios. No need for floppies.
"doug.masters@gmail.com" wrote:
> Poked around, don't see the question posed.
>
> My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
> drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
> something other than a floppy?
>
>
- Posted by Larry Samuels on October 22nd, 2005
Sorry,but that is incorrect
ASR only works from a floppy disk.
--
Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
Expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E692E41B-61D0-47BA-AAF8-E5B460A6361B@microsoft.com...
> Win XP uses your operating system cd as a boot disk. You might have to
> change
> boot order in the bios. No need for floppies.
>
> "doug.masters@gmail.com" wrote:
>
>> Poked around, don't see the question posed.
>>
>> My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
>> drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
>> something other than a floppy?
>>
>>
- Posted by Richard Urban on October 22nd, 2005
An ASR (Automatic System Restore) backup certainly "does" need a floppy. It
was not designed to work without one.
Remember, when XP came out about 4 years ago, everyone had floppy drives.
There was no consideration made to do it (ASR backup) any other way.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E692E41B-61D0-47BA-AAF8-E5B460A6361B@microsoft.com...
> Win XP uses your operating system cd as a boot disk. You might have to
> change
> boot order in the bios. No need for floppies.
>
> "doug.masters@gmail.com" wrote:
>
>> Poked around, don't see the question posed.
>>
>> My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
>> drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
>> something other than a floppy?
>>
>>
- Posted by Lawson Poling, MCSA on October 29th, 2005
For what its worth, I tried using a USB floppy a couple of days ago and it
did not work. The computer was a Dell Latitude D600.
"Jim" wrote:
>
> <doug.masters@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1129996201.028229.242730@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> > Poked around, don't see the question posed.
> >
> > My laptop does not have a floppy drive, tried making a USB Key the A
> > drive but that didn't work. Any way to make the ASR floppy on
> > something other than a floppy?
> >
> No, but it will work on an external floppy drive using a USB port.
> Jim
>
>
>
