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.

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
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> 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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> 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.

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.
>>
>
>