How do you make ASR restore disk without a floppy drive?

Robert

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Mar 7, 2007, 1:05:51 PM3/7/07

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Hi,
I have a new XP pro computer without a floppy drive.
How can you make a ASR recovery disk when you only have a CD/DVD-RW drive.
Appreciate any suggestions,

John John

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Mar 7, 2007, 1:17:50 PM3/7/07

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You need a floppy drive to do ASR restores. Period. Either fit a
floppy drive to the computer or use another restore strategy.

John

Robert

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Mar 7, 2007, 5:42:30 PM3/7/07

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Thanks...

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John John

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Mar 7, 2007, 7:56:12 PM3/7/07

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You're welcome.

John

Harry Ohrn

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Mar 8, 2007, 7:38:23 AM3/8/07

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It requires a floppy drive. This is just one of several reason why the
NTBackup program is a POS. Try a decent third party imaging solution.
Personally I use Acronis TrueImage from www.acronis.com

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Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]
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Mar 8, 2007, 8:30:23 AM3/8/07

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I have used a USB floppy before. Pain, but it works.

I prefer Acronis also.

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Earl H

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May 2, 2011, 1:36:26 PM5/2/11

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I've read many claims that you can burn a an image of the ASR to CD and fool windows into thinking you have floppy. There are also many freeware virtual floppy drive programs online. My own choice would be to instal a fresh copy of Windows and then run restore using that. I've found many first-hand claims online that this works.

>> On Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:17 PM John John wrote:

>> You need a floppy drive to do ASR restores. Period. Either fit a
>> floppy drive to the computer or use another restore strategy.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Robert wrote:

>>> On Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:42 PM Robert wrote:

>>> Thanks...

>>>> On Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:56 PM John John wrote:

>>>> You're welcome.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> Robert wrote:

>>>>> On Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:38 AM Harry Ohrn wrote:

>>>>> It requires a floppy drive. This is just one of several reason why the
>>>>> NTBackup program is a POS. Try a decent third party imaging solution.
>>>>> Personally I use Acronis TrueImage from www.acronis.com
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]
>>>>> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Jack Toff

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May 3, 2011, 10:23:59 AM5/3/11

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Dodo: Did you even bother to look at the date of the post you replied
to? Do you really think the OP is coming back to look for your reply
from the post made in 2007? What a trip you must be on!

John John - MVP

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May 7, 2011, 8:25:58 AM5/7/11

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On 5/2/2011 2:36 PM, Earl H wrote:
> I've read many claims that you can burn a an image of the ASR to CD
> and fool windows into thinking you have floppy.

You need a floppy drive to do an ASR restore. Period! No ifs, ands or
buts about it, the Windows setup program will only accept the Asr.sif
and Asrpnp.sif files on floppy media, nothing else. This is the same as
supplying mass storage drivers via the F6 method, the setup program only
accepts files from a floppy drive,

John