Bootable USB stick??

[jaws104]

Bit longwinded this but if anyone has experience with USB boot disks....

- I've no floppy drive so I'm forced to try flashing a video card via USB stick.

I used 'HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool' to create the usb boot disk, no probs

Then I choose usb as primary removable disk in bios (instead of floppy), and then select it as primary boot disk. THis works perfectly except.....

If I boot regularly without the USB stick in the drive, primary removable disk reverts to floppy. It stays stuck on floppy even if I put the USB stick back in and reboot.

Basically it means I have to manually change it in the bios every time I want to boot from USB!!

I can't see a way round this

Any takers

 

[randal]

Disabled floppy drive in bios?
Have you got an option for "Boot other device"?

Beers

 

[jaws104]

Disabled floppy drive in bios?
?

Beers

LOL gonna try that now - if it works I'm going feel a bit silly

 

[randal]

Meh, it's late. These things happen.

 

[jaws104]

Well I thought that'd do but alas...

what happens is it disables the second removable disk, not the actual floppy drive

So if I boot without the usb in floppy becomes primary

I pop the usb back in & load up bios and it's telling me flopply is primary and usb is disabled. Jeebus

If I uninstalled floppy drivers or something maybe?.....

 

[Skeeter]

for £5 you could pick up a floppy, or just find an old PC somewhere, everyone has one. Ive got 3 floppy drives, none of which are in any of my machines. Thats surely the easiest way.

 

[jaws104]

I can just select USB by F8 in boot actually lol, but ye floppy might be the way to go

Id have to use the same usb stick to flash 8800gt & to do emergency flash f*ckup recovery if it all went pear shaped. It's just a big bowl a wrong!

 

[randal]

Actually, yeah do that. Leave the boot order as CD then HDD, then use the F8 menu for the odd time you want to boot off the USB drive. Saves a lot of fuss in the long run.