Need help booting DOS! (Windows 7)

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Hi all, this seemed like the most appropriate sub forum for this, so here goes.
I've tried making many 'bootdisks' using USB flashdrives, but I always get the problem when booting from it 'NTLDR is missing'. Everytime.

I've tried using various versions of DOS on the flash drive, i've used the files from guides on how to make boot drives, just about everything and they all end up with 'NTLDR is missing' :confused:.

Is there any way around this? the reason I want to boot from DOS is so I can change my GPU's BIOS as I can't do so by any other means.
I'm using Windows 7, afaik that shouldn't prevent me from booting DOS using a properly made DOS boot disk?

Any help woul be grand, thanks!
 
PaulM said:
How are you adding the files to the flash drive? "NTLDR is missing" usually indicates you're trying to boot from a device that isn't marked as bootable.

I believe I followed this: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm when I needed to boot to DOS from a USB key.
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That guide you linked is pretty much what i've done time and time again, to no avail :/ used the format/create boot disk on the HP utility tool, even checked the files are there. No idea what's going wrong here :|
 
I had the same problems as you and appear to have saved two archives in my system backups. One is the HP utility tool and the other is this:

http://hotfile.com/dl/57264501/622c5d3/DOS_Bootfiles.zip.html

Try copying the files to the USB drive and see if it works...or if you can figure out what it is I did with these to get it working :/

EDIT: Just remembered. Extract the archive above to a folder on your desktop. Run HPUSBFW.EXE which you should already have from your previous attempts and select the option to create a DOS bootable disk with files located in the folder on your desktop which you extracted the above archive's contents to. I'm certain that's the way I did it.
 
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