Re: Backing Up Win XP Hard Drive Complete with Ntbackup

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feritayl

I'm having the same problem and I do have a floppy drive...any suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian

"nospam@cristalink.com" wrote:

> Read about Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows or NTBackup
> Help. It needs a floppy to recover your system after a complete
> failure. You may want to consider buying an external USB floppy drive.
>
> --
> http://www.firestreamer.com - NTBACKUP to DVD and DV
>
>
> "John Maulding" <JohnMaulding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<A689723E-F583-4C4A-AE04-2A83D78331E3@microsoft.com>...
> > I have an external ntfs drive with 80 gig of storage. I am trying to backup a
> > WIN xp hard drive with 30 gig on info on it.
> >
> > If I choose to back up documents it works fine. But when I try to back up
> > the entire hard drive in the Wizard I get this error message.
> >
> > Backup Status The files for the recovery diskette could not be created. The
> > operation was aborted. The operation did not successfully complete.
> >
> > It seems to be looking for a "floppy." I don't have a floppy drive on my
> > computer but I do have a CD drive. When I ran the backup I had a formated CD
> > in the drive.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > John Maulding
>
 
One note: ASR will only restore if running XP Pro - XP Home can NOT do
the ASR restore. The backup will go fine, but it simply won't do the
restore - don't get burned.
 
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