Re: No floppy drive available for backup

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The XP backup utility has many limitations, one of which is that it can not
write to CDs.

Get a good third-party backup utility, one that runs from a bootable CD
(since you have no floppy drive). I suggest Acronis True Image version 8,
but GHOST version 9 should also work.

By the way, you may not want to backup to CDs, at last not on a routine
basis. Simple put, CDs are slow. Think instead about getting a USB 2.0
external drive. Backups to that can be almost as fast as from one internal
disk to another internal disk. However, occassionally you could mkae a
backup as a set of spanned images, meaning sized about 650Meg each. True
Image and GHOST can do this sort of thing. Then, copy the imgaes to CDs or
to a DVD. I have found writing to disk, verifying the image set, then
copying it to CDs or DVD to be safer than writing directly to CD.

"Mike Blake" <k9jri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OVd2T%23cgFHA.3616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> When I attempt to use the "backup all data on this computer" option in the
> WindowsXP, SP2, Backup utility it fails to complete because my laptop does
> not have a floppy drive. Is it possible to have Backup create a boot CD
> rather than a floppy? My WindowsXP (SP1) is an OEM version, provided by
> eMachines, and I do not have a bootable XP disk with repair or other
> tools. Emachines provides a Norton Ghost copy of the original image.
>
> I would like to be able to use Backup to create a complete image of my
> current OS version and all installed software.
>
>


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