How do you make a bootable floppy?

[Forgiven]

I am trying to update my bios on my KT7 Raid and it says to make a bootable floppy and I don't know how...any help.

Thanks

 

[ZurgDawg]

You can just go into the control panels and then into Add / Remove Programs. Once there click the 'Startup Disk' tab and create a disk. Then you can tweak the disk however you need but it will get you the basic files.

 

[sohcrates]

i'd do it using the add/remove programs thingy listed above. but if you want another approach you can go to bootdisk.com and download a win98 boot image that can be placed on a floppy disk

 

[le3tplaya]

if you need a really quick boot disk, just sys a floppy.

 

[Mikendi]

Don't make a startup from the control panel!! that is not the type of "bootable floppy you want - If you do you'll have to delete CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

Go to: Start/Programs/MSDOS/ at the C:\ type: FORMAT A:/S then insert a disk and hit enter.

Then when it's done copy THE flash utility & new BIOS - don't forget to save your old BIOS. Good luck 😉

 

[le3tplaya]

thats what i said, sys a disk 🙂

 

[Mikendi]

I know, but I needed a step by step my first time so . . . 😉

 

[Nevo]

Sigh.

If you have a machine running DOS, Windows 95, or Windows 98, go to a command prompt and type:

format a: /s

The /s option writes the (bootable) system files.

If your machine is running WinMe, you can't do this and must create the disk from Add/Remove programs.

If your machine is running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, you can create a bootable floppy, but it will have to point to an existing operating system on the hard drive. This is useful if your startup environment is hosed but the OS works, like if you added a disk or changed a disk controller or something. In your case, this is probably not useful, but for the sake of completeness, to do this, format a floppy disk under NT4/W2K/XP (do not do a quick format) and copy boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr to the floppy. You may need ntbootdd.sys depending on your configuration, and you may need to edit boot.ini appropriately for the target machine.