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Old 09-14-2007   #1 (permalink)
Nigel Molesworth


 
 

Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

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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Old 09-14-2007   #2 (permalink)
andy


 
 

Re: Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:56:21 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
<reply@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

>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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Old 09-15-2007   #3 (permalink)
Nigel Molesworth


 
 

Re: Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

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

>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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Old 09-16-2007   #4 (permalink)
Uwe Sieber


 
 

Re: Booting DOS from USB flash drive?

Nigel Molesworth wrote:
Quote:

> 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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