Guest David Laszlo Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 I am running Windows 2003 Small Business Server SP1 on a standard HP proliant server. I have created an ASR backup set using a USB hard drive and a standard floppy. The ASR backup completed normally and I can see the 2 SIF files and the setup log on the ASR floppy. The floppy was preformatted using the same machine and has a data volume label of ASR. I ran a test restore to validate the ASR backup. At the point where ASR requires the floppy, I inserted the disk and pressed a key to continue. However the ASR routine continued to request that I insert the floppy disk and seemed unable to detect the disk. This issue has been repeated several times and thru several new ASR backups. I have checked that the floppy is enabled at boot up in the BIOS and have also proved that the boot process can detect the floppy drive by attempting to boot from the floppy; as expected the boot failed to find NTLDR on the floppy and stopped. On removing the disk and restarting the server boots normally to Windows 2003. As the disk appears to be available at bootup and can be accessed normally under windows I think I have eliminated the possibility of a hardware or media failure. However I am unable to think of any other reason why ASR would fail to recognise the ASR floppy as part of the backup set. Any ideas or further diagnostic suggestions gratefully received. David
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