backup floppy disk

i used xp backup wizard to backup entire operating system to hard disk,
worked fine except for last step which was to insert floppy disk to allow
write data, computer has no disk, message says to go on line?, is their a
work around? any reference would be fine

"jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>i used xp backup wizard to backup entire operating system to hard disk,
> worked fine except for last step which was to insert floppy disk to allow
> write data, computer has no disk, message says to go on line?, is their a
> work around? any reference would be fine

No, the ASR process uses a floppy drive. There is no way around it.

Ntbackup is a legacy app from Windows NT. Even with the floppy I found the
restore process cumbersome and not reliable. Long ago I moved to a drive
imaging program, saving the images on an external, USB connected hard drive.
Currently I recommend Acronis True Image Home, version 10. It can create
compressed images on a drive and partition basis. Images can be full,
incremental or differential, cutting down on the time/space for subsequent
images. Restores can be done on a file, partition or drive basis. It also
does file backup and disk cloning.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i used xp backup wizard to backup entire operating system to hard disk,
> worked fine except for last step which was to insert floppy disk to allow
> write data, computer has no disk, message says to go on line?, is their a
> work around? any reference would be fine
The work around is to use some other backup program.
I use Acronis True Image.
Others use Norton Ghost.
Jim