Flashing a Mobo with a non FAT file system

[airis2001]

OK, so the new bios is out for the MSI K8N Neo Platinummobo and I would really like to be able to get a PROPER temp reading for my CPU. I was reading through the directions for how to flash the mobo and have a slight issue. The standard directions call for you to unzip the flash program and file to a directory on the c drive, restart the computer whit a dos boot disk, go to the drive and directory where the files are, and run the flash program, sounds simple. bit I have a NTFS drive (2 actually). The work around for this is to unzip the files to a blank floppy, restart the PC with a windows ME or 98se boot disk (the ones that create a ramdisk) and then copy the file to the ramdisk, the run the flash program. Well, i don't have a windows 98 or me boot disk and the suggestions for this issue is great? this is a direct quote from the how to file included it the zip: "If you do not have Windows ME or 98 to create the floppy you can make one on a friend's computer." well thsi is not going to work either- they my friends and family, are all on XP to. Anyone else here have this issue and know how to work around it? Oh- the directions are explicit in saying not to run the flash program from a floppy, so that?s out
Thanks for any ideas

 

[splice]

http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Zepper]

You can get a DOS loadable program that will allow you to read from an NTFS partitions. I believe it's on the sysinternals (or winternals, I forget which) web site. I believe it's called NTFSDOS - maybe you can google for it. If you want to pay you can buy a version that allows writing too.
. Easier might be to use some free space you have and create an Extended partition and create a logical drive in that partition and format it as FAT. When you''re done flashing, you can delete the partition. Or just leave it there for future use...
. Regardless of what they say about not running from a floppy, most flashing will do fine when run from a floppy. Just make sure you have cleaned all the unnecessary crap off the floppy so there will be at least twice the BIOS file size of free space (there are usually some large hidden files on a formatted diskette that aren't needed like drvspace.bin, etc.) and check the .bat file used to run the flash so that it's pointing to the right place and also to check the switches on the flash command.
.bh.

 

[daveshel]

Can't you fit the flash program and the binary on a DOS boot disk? Run it all from the floppy.

 

[airis2001]

Thanks for the link, I now have a win98se disk that will load with a ram drive