No floppy drive on laptop

My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Thank you.

Jack Gillis wrote:

My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Return it, and buy something with a reasonable set of
peripherals. These include a floppy drive and a proper serial
port (not one driven by USB).

--
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office
in foreign policy matters with war on my mind." - Bush.
"If I knew then what I know today, I would still have invaded
Iraq. It was the right decision" - G.W. Bush, 2004-08-02

"Jack Gillis" wrote in message
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My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Thank you.



get an external, USB, floppy drive

"CBFalconer" wrote in message
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Jack Gillis wrote:

My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put a
disk in drive A:

Return it, and buy something with a reasonable set of
peripherals. These include a floppy drive and a proper serial
port (not one driven by USB).

--
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office
in foreign policy matters with war on my mind." - Bush.
"If I knew then what I know today, I would still have invaded
Iraq. It was the right decision" - G.W. Bush, 2004-08-02



snip

and a proper serial port (not one driven by USB)

??????????? where does the poster say it does not have one.

and don't be so aggressive either.........

toy

"Toy" wrote in message
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"Jack Gillis" wrote in message
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My laptop has no floppy drive. I have always depended on Norton
Ghost's
and Partition Magic's floppy recovery disks to backup/restore and
adjust
my desktop system. How can I make such disks without a floppy drive.
I've tried making bootable CD's but the programs keep insisting I put
a
disk in drive A:

Thank you.



get an external, USB, floppy drive




Yes, that is certainly a solution. From what I can see, more and more
people are in the same situation of not having a floppy on their new
machines -- especially laptops. I wonder when software vendors will
follow up on this. I know of one vendor that used to send additions and
updates only on floppies but now recognizes the need for providing them
on CD's. A step in the right directions.