How do I Make a bootable CD-Rom that will work as a boot disk for flashing bios?

[ntshane]

Hey,

I'm trying to flash the bios on a machine that has no floppy disk. How does one make a bootable cd that will work in the same manner as a floppy does for flashing the bios?

Thanks all!

-shane

 

[spoma]

burn on the files you would for a bootable floppy and it will boot to dos and then you can flash your bios from there if you have the flash utility on the cd also. why not just use a floppy?

 

[ntshane]

Thanks, I'll try that.

There's no floppy in that machine. Otherwise i wouldn't hassle with it.

-shane

 

[bacillus]

what OS is that pc using? if it's win9x then you can flash your bios from files on the root of your C drive!

 

[ntshane]

I'm using win2000. I just realized that I can create a boot cd in nero, just had to nix the wizard and go to the main "New CD" dialog.

-shane

 

[bozo1]

<< burn on the files you would for a bootable floppy and it will boot to dos >>


That will not work. Just writing the files to a CD does -not- put the boot sector on there. You need to use the 'make bootable' option in Nero/CDR-Win/Whatever if you want it to work.

 

[ntshane]

Okay, I figured out how to do this, so if anybody searches for this in the future:

bozo is right, you have to use nero's 'bootable cd' feature.

Select 'New..." then click 'CD-ROM (boot)' in the left pane, then click 'New' button. Then what you will need is your bootable floppy (in my case it was a win98 startup disk), put all of the files from your bootable floppy into the cd. then click burn.

Worked like a charm.

-shane