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?

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:56:21 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
<(E-Mail Removed)> 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?

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.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:11:33 -0700, andy <bogusaddress@bogusaddress.123>
wrote:

>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!

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