Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

[Nigel Molesworth]

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?

 

[andy]

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.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

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!

 

[Uwe Sieber]

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/SearchView.aspx?q=SP27213.exe