ASR Query

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Hello all,

Just a quick question.

Using ASR in Windows XP requires me to create a set of floppy disks incase a recovery is needed.

I have installed a number of new Dell machines at our Head Office site of which none contain a floppy drive.

Can a ASR image be stored on a flash drive for example incase I need to recover one of these systems? Or would I now have to burn a cd as the recovery media?

Thanks

 

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Without looking further into it, I'd say that as long as you can boot from the device you can store the ASR files on it.

 

That is what I thought

I haven't had a mess about with it as I am currently not at that site.

Just wanted to know if anybody had faced a similar problem.

Thanks for the help

 

Don't know if this LINK will help, if you haven't seen it already, Rostros. There is a link on the right that describes just what you're after, but it looks like it is outdated !

 

Thanks for that Jaka...

I did have a look at that page earlier but just couldn't see anything about using other media, but I didn't browse that long.

Going to have a test with burning a CD with the recovery info and using a flash drive as well, see what happens.

I guess every new machine that comes into my sites now will probably come without a floppy drive so it would be useful to know.