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no floppy drive for backup floppy boot
Posted by brunetto on May 4th, 2006


I went to backup my system and find that I need a floppy disk save to?

My machine is a Dell 4700 C which does not come with a floppy drive.

How do I do this?

Thank You

Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on May 4th, 2006


Hi,

Are you trying to make an ASR backup disk? If so, a removable USB floppy
drive is a cheap alternative.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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Posted by steam3801 on May 4th, 2006


On Wed, 3 May 2006 18:54:02 -0700, brunetto
<brunetto@discussions.microsoft.com> - in a blinding flash of
brilliance - wrote:

How?

steam3801
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Posted by Rock on May 4th, 2006


brunetto wrote:

Using Ntbackup, ASR requires a floppy. There is no way around it. Look
into other backup solutions. There are a variety of good ones out
there. One option is a drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost,
Acronis True Image or Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows or BootIt
Next Generation.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User


Posted by steam3801 on May 4th, 2006


On Thu, 04 May 2006 14:27:19 +1000, steam3801
<tryspammingthis@ozemail.com.au> - in a blinding flash of brilliance -
wrote:

OK, answered ... NtBackup, it seems.

steam3801
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Posted by steam3801 on May 4th, 2006


On Wed, 3 May 2006 18:54:02 -0700, brunetto
<brunetto@discussions.microsoft.com> - in a blinding flash of
brilliance - wrote:

What do you want to back up exactly? If it is just *YOUR* files (i.e.
user created files) try a free program like Abakt.

A warning about "system" type backups (incl using Ghost type
programs): if there are any problems and/or nasties in your system,
all you'll be doing is backing them up to perpetuate the problem with
any restore you do.

Personally, I'm not a great fan of post-software installation backups
or imaging/ghosting. If a system deteriorates to such an extent that a
system restore is required, it really is time to think about a format
& clean (re)install. FWIW
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steam3801
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