Re: Automatic System Recovery

Regrettably, ASR is one of several functions in Windows that *still*
(unbelievably) requires a floppy, a standard floppy that is, USB will not
qualify UNLESS that USB floppy perhaps can be mapped by your laptop BIOS to
a standard floppy (not common, but perhaps possible). It's why I still, to
this day, ALWAYS keep a cheap standard floppy on every system. It's a pain
we have to support this antiquated device, but it's an even bigger pain when
you HAVE to have it and don't!

Here are couple more examples of why the standard floppy isn't dead:
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=397

So I don't think there's a workaround (it's hard to even find worlarounds
for the other cases). But with some persistent Googling, who knows, you may
find somebody who's tackled the problem and found a solution.

Jim


"Leasider" <leasiderSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am attempting to do an ASR backup, restore.
>
> I am attempting to do it to my notebook, which uses a USB floppy drive.
> When I am prompted for the recovery disk, Windows is unable to locate my
> floppy, and of course the restore fails. I assume it is because USB
> device drivers have not been installed at this point.
>
> Does anyone have a work around for this problem.
>
> Thanks, Gary.
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