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Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

 
 
Nigel Molesworth
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      14th Sep 2007
My motherboard has the option to boot from various USB drives (Zip, HD,
CDROM). Is there a way to make a DOS boot "disk" on a flash drive for things
like BIOS updates etc?

 
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andy
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      14th Sep 2007
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:56:21 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
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>My motherboard has the option to boot from various USB drives (Zip, HD,
>CDROM). Is there a way to make a DOS boot "disk" on a flash drive for things
>like BIOS updates etc?


Enable legacy USB support in BIOS setup so that the USB flash drive is
detected during POST. Then you can boot from a DOS diskette, and fdisk
and format /s the flash drive.
 
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Nigel Molesworth
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      15th Sep 2007
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:11:33 -0700, andy <bogusaddress@bogusaddress.123>
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>Then you can boot from a DOS diskette


What is this "diskette" of which you speak?
Some form of storage used by the ancients?

Seriosly though, don't have a floppy drive.
Which is why I asked the question in the first place!

 
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Uwe Sieber
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      16th Sep 2007
Nigel Molesworth wrote:
> My motherboard has the option to boot from various USB drives (Zip, HD,
> CDROM). Is there a way to make a DOS boot "disk" on a flash drive for things
> like BIOS updates etc?
>


Try the HP format tool:
http://www.docjelly.com/Blog/SearchV...?q=SP27213.exe



 
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