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.