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Floppy Disk Boot Backup To USB

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I have an older industrial PC that I need to image. It does not have CD rom capability and the BIOS does not support USB boot. I tried using my first version of Acronis (6.0) to create boot floppies and backup to USB since it only required 4 floppy disks. Acronis did see the USB thumb drive but thought it was removable media so no luck imaging to the thumb drive. The later versions of Acronis (9.0 and up I think) support booting from floppy and storing the PC image on USB media. The issue is that they require a TON of floppy disks. I need to be able to image the existing HD, then install the new HD and restore the image. Is there a way to accomplish this without creating tons of boot floppies and then feeding them to the PC twice to backup and then restore?

Thanks,

Imnee

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If you have no CD-ROM, and no USB boot, then you're rather out of luck with the current setup. I would suggest that you either:

- get a CD-ROM
or
- remove the HD, place it in an external enclosure or interface, connect that to another PC and image the drive there.