ASR on floppy

Unfortunately you are going to have to have a floppy to use the asr disk, there's no work-around. You can save the files anywhere (like to a network share) but to use them the system is always going to look at the floppy.

One solution is to get a usb floppy and boot from that (if your bios supports it). You might also need this ms hotfix if the system can't find the files:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=820364

Cheers.

RW

You can preform the ASR backup without a floppy, but not the
restore.

The following article has this quote:

"What if you have no floppy disk drive on your machine?
Fortunately, you can still use ASR to back up your system, but its
a bit of a workaround. During the ASR backup process copies of
these asr.sif and asrpnp.sif files are also saved in the
%SystemRoot%\Repair folder on your server. So, when you
receive a prompt at the end of the backup process to insert a
floppy, simply ignore the prompt and instead copy asr.sif and
asrpnp.sif from Repair to a network share on another server (one
that has a floppy disk drive installed). Then, copy the files from
the share on that server to a blank floppy you insert into its
drive, and you now have a working ASR floppy for your backup.
Then, go buy a USB external floppy drive, because you?ll need it
if you ever have to rebuild your original server from the backup
set you created. In other words, you can perform ASR backup
without a floppy, but you cannot perform an ASR restore without
one."

Here is the link:

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/ASP/

Choose this link on that page:

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Good Luck,

razz

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