Is It Possible....

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To flash the BIOS of my motherboard using a USB Flash Drive in the following way:

Make bootable floppy within Windows XP, then copy COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS & MSDOS.SYS files from floppy onto the USB flash drive, then copy afudos + BIOS binary file onto the USB Flash drive, then boot from USB flash drive into MS-DOS and carry out flash.

If this is not possible, how would I make a MS-DOS bootable CD, onto which I could then copy the afudos + BIOS binary files, boot from CD into MS-DOS, and carry flash?

Many thanks for your help. :)
 
Why make a simple thing so complicated? Just download Winflash and flash the bios within windows,I've been doing it this way for years and it has worked perfectly everytime.
 
Well, so long as DOS recognises the drive, then of course, why not?

Easier, use a boot floppy.
Format the USB key to FAT and copy the flasher and the BIOS file to the USB key. Once DOS is loaded, find out which drive letter the USB key has been assigned and then flash as normal - I'm not sure how to make a bootable USB key, but I'm sure tit can be done, however the above way is far more simple. I use this way except I just use a CD, or normally I keep a 20MB partition of FAT on my main hard drive for this exact purpose.
 
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