"Jerry Foley" wrote in message
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How do I create an ASR floppy without a floppy drive? I have a dvd/cd
rw but
no floppy. I use the backup utility from XP to an external USB 500GB
drive.


My recollection of ASR is that it simply helped direct a minimal fresh
install of Windows which then ran the restore from the full backup
(required) along with any incremental or differentials after the full
backup and then rebooted to give you your full Windows setup again
(well, as near to the setup that you had when using logical file backups
versus sector-by-sector partition images). Wow, golly gee, what a big
load of nothing. Just do a fresh install of Windows yourself using the
installation CD (or restore image) and then do the restore(s) yourself.
Obviously since Windows gets reinstalled as a fresh copy whether using
ASR or doing it manually yourself, your backups must be in a different
partition or different media than the one in which the OS resided and
where it is getting reinstalled.