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boot disk using flash drive

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TitusTroy

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anyone know how to create an XP boot disk using a flash drive?...I'm trying to flash my BIOS, which I normally do through a floppy, but the BIOS file is too large to fit on a floppy...so I now need to be able to create a boot disk using my flash drive...I want to use it as a MS DOS start up disk, so I can boot from it...So, how do I go about formatting it with MS-DOS (like option when you format a floppy disk under XP and it has Create an MS-DOS startup disk)...anyone have any step by step instructions?
 
Are you not able to get a windows run BIOS updater?

I know it can be done as I have done it, But I also did this along time ago and as OS advance it gets harder to do the older fixes.
If you use DOS in the past and can remember most of the commands you should be able to do this in a DOS promt in XP, I do know XP SP2 has removed some features as XP and XP SP1 would alow you to format a pendrive from FAT (FAT12/floppy) to NTFS but SP2 removed alot of those options.
Then do the usual /r or /s, I cant rmember the correct commands anymore.
MS made these changes due to claimed corruption of data on removable SSD.

Otherwise you have to find yourself a floppydrive or external version.

FOr those that cant and want to still format your SSD in NTFS you can format them in FAT32 and then do a convert to NTFS at a command prompt, Never had any problems other then lending it to a MAC user, Duh


 
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