I am not able to create the Automated System Recovery disk.
I have a floppy drive installed and it works.
I have XP Pro w/ SP2

These are the steps:
1) I click on the Autometed System Recovery Wizard
2) At the Welcome screen I click Next
3) Backup media or filename: E:\Backup.bkf
4) Completing the Automated System Recovery preparation wizard
5) Click Next I get a progress window that says it is "Querying computer
for volume
info...", "Building list of volumes...", "Writing to ASR state file..."
6) This message is displayed: The files for recovery diskette could not
be created.
The operation was aborted.

Thanks for any help
ocjoe

ocjoe wrote:

> I am not able to create the Automated System Recovery disk.
> I have a floppy drive installed and it works.
> I have XP Pro w/ SP2
>
> These are the steps:
> 1) I click on the Autometed System Recovery Wizard
> 2) At the Welcome screen I click Next
> 3) Backup media or filename: E:\Backup.bkf
> 4) Completing the Automated System Recovery preparation wizard
> 5) Click Next I get a progress window that says it is "Querying computer
> for volume
> info...", "Building list of volumes...", "Writing to ASR state file..."
> 6) This message is displayed: The files for recovery diskette could not
> be created.
> The operation was aborted.
>
> Thanks for any help
> ocjoe

How To Re-Create a Missing Automated System Recovery Floppy Disk in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=299526

I don't have any ASR files to restore. The E:\Backup.bkf that was created
does not have any data in it.

How can I create an original ASR backup disk? What is causing me to get the
error :
"The files for recovery diskette could not be created. The operation was
aborted"

Thanks

ocjoe wrote:

> I don't have any ASR files to restore. The E:\Backup.bkf that was created
> does not have any data in it.
>
> How can I create an original ASR backup disk? What is causing me to get the
> error :
> "The files for recovery diskette could not be created. The operation was
> aborted"
>
> Thanks

The information I gave you only applies if the backup was created but
ASR failed on creating the asr floppy. In that scenario the floppy can
be recreated from the backup itself. If your system didn't create the
backup then obviously that solution won't work. As to why the backup
file is empty I don't know.

I moved away from ntbackup because of such problems and even when it
worked, restoring the drive was slow and clunky. Ntbackup cannot backup
to CD unless 3rd party burning software is installed, and even then it
cannot span CDs- i.e. write to more than one CD.

I chose a disk imaging program. There are several available now
including Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, Terabyte Unlimited's Image
for Windows and BootitNG. They are fast and easy to use. Save the
backup image on external media such as DVD or an external hard drive.

"Rock" wrote:

[..]
> for Windows and BootitNG. They are fast and easy to use. Save the
> backup image on external media such as DVD or an external hard drive.
>>
> --
> Rock
> MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
Thanks. I believe I will go in that direction also.
ocjoe

ocjoe wrote:

>
> "Rock" wrote:
>>
>
> Thanks. I believe I will go in that direction also.
> ocjoe

You're welcome and good luck.