Re: ASR without floppy drive

Hi,

This depends on the bios.
Some machines emulate a floppydrive when you startup with a usb key, so I
guess this could be a working option. But I must say, I've never tried it.
Windows need to think that he sees a floppy, so with a cd it does not work
:-(

I use a USB Floppydrive, that works very good too...

Regards,
Maurice

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Thomas Denier [mailto:Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU]
                Sent:   woensdag 13 juli 2005 17:03
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        [ADSM-L] ASR without floppy drive

                We are evaluating ASR as a bare metal recovery tool for
Windows.
                Most of our installed Intel servers have floppy drives, but
we
                were not expecting to order future Intel servers with floppy
                drives. The last time we did a disaster recovery test, we
got
                Intel systems with floppy drives from SunGard, but I don't
think
                our contract guarantees floppy drives in the future.

                Is is possible to use a USB key or a writable CD as a
substitute
                for the floppy disk mentioned in the ASR documentation?


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