How to upgrade BIOS without floppy drive

[Pilgrim57]

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"?
Thanks

 

[Pilgrim57]

Thanks for the quick reply, Randal24. Good to know I have that option.

 

[Pilgrim57]

As stated, make flash disk bootable using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (here) & good to go

Thanks for the link, I've dowloaded it for future use & there was me thinking the HP stood for Hewlet Packard

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.

This is useful too as I keep my page file on its own partition & could use that at a pinch.

TVM guys.