How to upgrade BIOS without floppy drive

Pilgrim57

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I'm thinking of ditching my floppy drive in a forthcomong rebuild. I know you can update within Windows & use CD rom drive but could you use a USB stick? What about during boot esp before windows install? Would it work as a "removeable drive"?
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Yep, make USB stick bootable. There are HP utils out there, bang DOS on it and set it too boot from USB in the BIOS.

A lot of BIOSs will even read your BIOS bin straight from the stick without having to boot into DOS and run the flash util.
 
If you don't have a flash drive, just create a small FAT32 partition on your HD, format and make it a system disc. Copy flash util and firmware file. Boot from the drive.
 
hp7909 said:
As stated, make flash disk bootable using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (here) & good to go :)
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Thanks for the link, I've dowloaded it for future use:) & there was me thinking the HP stood for Hewlet Packard:o

If you don't have a flash drive, just create a small FAT32 partition on your HD, format and make it a system disc. Copy flash util and firmware file. Boot from the drive.
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This is useful too as I keep my page file on its own partition & could use that at a pinch.

TVM guys.
 
Features like ASUS' EZ Flash make it so easy to update the BIOS now, it's ridiculous. Just pop the rom onto a USB stick, boot into the BIOS, load flash utility up and it does everything for you.

Pilgrim57 said:
& there was me thinking the HP stood for Hewlet Packard
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It does.
 
I cheat and use a USB floppy drive from 1 of my laptops though I have in the past created a bootable CD with the BIOS files on it and done it that way
 
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