Create Bootable CD Without Floppy Drive?

[IamDavid]

I need to create just a basic boot cd so I can update my bios. I am not updatnig off the cd I just need to get to a dos prompt so I can run the utility off a parition on the hard drive.. All the places I have found to make a bootbale cd require a floppy drive. 🙁 Help, please. 🙂

 

[LiLithTecH]

This may be of help to you.

Boot CD

 

[IamDavid]

Nope, been there already. It all requires a floppy drive. I know there has to be an easy solution to this... Thanks anyway.

 

[civad]

Try this (not sure if it might work tho')

1. get hold of a pc with Floppy drive. Transfer ALL the contents of the win 95/98/ME boot disk into a folder on this machine. In case you have a cd burner on this one, you can burn those files onto a cd. Else, (now I am assuming this comp with floppy drive is connected to the internet), zip the folder and transfer it over the net to some machine that has a cd burner. Unzip and burn just the files

2. Change the boot order of your PC (the one which doesnt have floppy drive). make CDROM the first boot.

3. Insert the "boot cd" that you just made.

Good luck!

In case this fails and you end up with another coaster, let me know ^.^

 

[IamDavid]

Thanks civad, but that won't work either. The cd has to have a boot.img file on it not just the files from a boot disk.. At least thats what I have been readin.. Of course I am probaby wrong, I have been reading so much junk lately.

 

[CTho9305]

1. go to bootdisk.com
2. download some random win9x bootdisk
[3. use winimage to convert the .imz to .ima (if it is an IMZ, most burning apps dont support IMZs)]
4. tell Nero / whatever you use to make a bootable CD and point it to the .ima file.
5. add your bios image and flashing app.
6. boot and flash

 

[IamDavid]

Thanks a million CTho9305, worked perfectly. 🙂

 

[CTho9305]

Yeah, I do it this way even on machines that have floppies because writing data in sand on a windy beach is more reliable than using a floppy 😉