Guest Wake-Up-Jeff Posted April 16, 2008 Posted April 16, 2008 W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in the A: drive. How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives. I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk partitions. My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location / disk drive? I haven't found a way to do it.
Guest Wake-Up-Jeff Posted April 16, 2008 Posted April 16, 2008 Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk Found an answer in an earlier post. (Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .) LauraEHunterMVP: You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the complete backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will have a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found in %windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files can be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR restore (%windir% usually is c:\windows). To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR restore, I'm not sure if there's any workaround for this. Hope this helps. "Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uHEo7d2nIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in > the A: drive. > How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives. > I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk > partitions. > My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location / > disk drive? > I haven't found a way to do it. >
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted April 16, 2008 Posted April 16, 2008 Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk Hello Wake-Up-Jeff, Better use a free newsreader and not OE. For example: http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/index.html Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Found an answer in an earlier post. > (Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .) > LauraEHunterMVP: > You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the > complete > backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will > have > a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found > in > %windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files > can > be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR > restore > (%windir% usually is c:\windows). > To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR > restore, I'm not sure if there's any workaround for this. > > Hope this helps. > > "Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uHEo7d2nIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > >> W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be >> located in >> the A: drive. >> How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives. >> I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk >> partitions. >> My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location >> / >> disk drive? >> I haven't found a way to do it.
Guest Brains,None Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk Hey, one can always beg from someone a USB floppy.. that usually works in these icky cases.. Wake-Up-Jeff wrote: > Found an answer in an earlier post. > (Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .) > > LauraEHunterMVP: > You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the > complete > backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will have > a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found in > %windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files can > be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR > restore > (%windir% usually is c:\windows). > > To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR restore, I'm > not sure if there's any workaround for this. > > Hope this helps. > > > "Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uHEo7d2nIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in >> the A: drive. >> How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives. >> I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk >> partitions. >> My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location / >> disk drive? >> I haven't found a way to do it. >> > >
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