Creating Bootable Floppy for XP PRO BIOS Upgrade

[Guest]

As I'm rebuilding my Sony Vaio (PCV-RX270DS) with my CD version of XP Pro,
one of the downloads from Sony is to update the BIOS to 1003. In order to do
this, the instructions call for a 3 1/2 bootable floppy disk to receive the
BIOS Installation files. Sony has a link for information on "Creating a
Bootable Floppy Disk for Windows XP Bios Updates" however, this link produces
a 401 error.
Please let me know how to create this bootable floppy.

Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

www.bootdisk.com has the instructions

 

[Wesley Vogel]

To create an MS-DOS startup disk
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...oddocs/en-us/win_create_dos_startup_disk.mspx

How To Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305595

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Larry(LJL269)]

Insert floppy, rt clk > format > bootable will produce
it with DOS included which u may not want. If so, just
delete the files it contains - SONY's DL might include
its own vers of DOS.

Flashing BIOS is irreversible on my PC so be very very
careful. BIG RED FLAGS. Suggest u SCAN floppy 4 bad
sectors b4 u write to it.

HTH-Larry

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:43:02 -0700, "Rocky"

|As I'm rebuilding my Sony Vaio (PCV-RX270DS) with my CD version of XP Pro,
|one of the downloads from Sony is to update the BIOS to 1003. In order to do
|this, the instructions call for a 3 1/2 bootable floppy disk to receive the
|BIOS Installation files. Sony has a link for information on "Creating a
|Bootable Floppy Disk for Windows XP Bios Updates" however, this link produces
|a 401 error.
|Please let me know how to create this bootable floppy.
|
|Thanks.

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Plato]

As I'm rebuilding my Sony Vaio (PCV-RX270DS) with my CD version of XP Pro,
one of the downloads from Sony is to update the BIOS to 1003. In order to do
this, the instructions call for a 3 1/2 bootable floppy disk to receive the
BIOS Installation files. Sony has a link for information on "Creating a

Best disk I made for flashing bios:

http://download.sudhian.com/faq/kt7/downloads/Misc/drdflash.exe
http://www.abitfaq.it/Files/drdflash.exe

No drivers.

 

[Mark Barrett]

Here is the link to where you can get the bootable CD's for windows XP
Good Luck