Automated System Recovery w/o a floppy?

[Chris]

Hello All!

I've got a Dell 8600 laptop with no floppy drive. However, I _do_ have a
USB flash disk. Is there any way to get the ASR utility to write the
backup information to the USB disk instead of a floppy drive?

I've got to say that in this day it's kinda weird that MS hasn't developed
something other than a floppy based recovery system, given that more and
more systems are shipping w/o floppy drives.

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Chris
"I'm gonna get me a egg."

[Thorsten Matzner]

Chris > wrote:

>I've got a Dell 8600 laptop with no floppy drive. However, I _do_ have a
>USB flash disk. Is there any way to get the ASR utility to write the
>backup information to the USB disk instead of a floppy drive?

No. This is a very basic feature and not customizeable. You could try
to find some third-party software that does what you want.

--
(tm)

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Chris wrote:
>
> I've got a Dell 8600 laptop with no floppy drive. However, I _do_ have a
> USB flash disk. Is there any way to get the ASR utility to write the
> backup information to the USB disk instead of a floppy drive?
>
> I've got to say that in this day it's kinda weird that MS hasn't developed
> something other than a floppy based recovery system, given that more and
> more systems are shipping w/o floppy drives.

It won't do you any good to have ASR on the USB drive if your system
can't boot from a USB drive. CDs are still best for booting.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[jceddy]

So, can you create a boot CD instead of a boot floppy with ASR?