Floopy required to back up ASR files using Microsoft Back ..

Backing up to a Western Digital remote hard drive calls for a diskette to be
used to create a recovery disk. I don't have a floppy drive and there is no
option to create this on the CD drive, nor to a flash drive. The back up
although complete would be useless without a recovery disk. What is the
solution to this dilema.
At the microsoft site: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-18.html
there is a step by step process, however when one arrives at the message:ASR
only makes a backup of your files on your System drive (usually drive C:\).
If you use other hard drives, you will need to make a separate backup of your
documents & files to make a complete "recovery" after disaster!
There is no option to use a drive other than a floppy?
Thank you for any assistance possible this is a new XP with service pack 2
from Dell
jdbw
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jdbw

JDB Wilson wrote:

> Backing up to a Western Digital remote hard drive calls for a diskette to be
> used to create a recovery disk. I don't have a floppy drive and there is no
> option to create this on the CD drive, nor to a flash drive. The back up
> although complete would be useless without a recovery disk. What is the
> solution to this dilema.
> At the microsoft site: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-18.html
> there is a step by step process, however when one arrives at the message:ASR
> only makes a backup of your files on your System drive (usually drive C:\).
> If you use other hard drives, you will need to make a separate backup of your
> documents & files to make a complete "recovery" after disaster!
> There is no option to use a drive other than a floppy?
> Thank you for any assistance possible this is a new XP with service pack 2
> from Dell
> jdbw

The alternative would be to use a third-party disk imaging/backup system
that does not rely on a floppy disk drive, such as Acronis TrueImage or
Symantec Ghost, among others. The recovery would then be from a bootable
CD-R or DVD-R, depending on the media and capability of the optical drive.