Microsoft XP: how to create usb thumbdrive "boot diskette"? (WinXP x64 bit)

• russ / 204 / Tues, 09 Feb 2010 10:50:00 GMT / Comments (2)
• I would like to create a "floppy boot diskette" on a usb thumb drive.
  - My computer -- which is new hardware (AMD 152 chip) does not have a floppy
  drive.
  - The BIOS does recognize all the usb ports for booting.
  - The BIOS already shows the usb ports as the "First boot device".
  
  So my only need is to make the thumb drive bootable.
  
  My immediate need for this is to be able to update my BIOS with a flash
  script, that the instructions say should be put on a bootable floppy.
  
  I tried following instructions from this url given out in another thread:
  http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html
  but I accidentally wiped out (fdisk) my second hard disk containing a
  solaris installation.
  
  Anybody have an easier way? Thanks.
  
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  create, usb, thumbdrive, boot, diskette, winxp, x64, bit, microsoft, xp

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• 1. "Russ" <Russ...discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
     news:46501EC9-EE4A-4B9D-A4E8-288348E768C5...microsoft.com...
     >I would like to create a "floppy boot diskette" on a usb thumb drive.
     > - My computer -- which is new hardware (AMD 152 chip) does not have a
     > floppy
     > drive.
     > - The BIOS does recognize all the usb ports for booting.
     > - The BIOS already shows the usb ports as the "First boot device".
     > So my only need is to make the thumb drive bootable.
     > My immediate need for this is to be able to update my BIOS with a flash
     > script, that the instructions say should be put on a bootable floppy.
     > I tried following instructions from this url given out in another thread:
     > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html
     > but I accidentally wiped out (fdisk) my second hard disk containing a
     > solaris installation.
     > Anybody have an easier way? Thanks.
     
     Why not make a bootable CDrom?
     Paul Woodsford
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     paulwoodsford | Thurs, 05 Jun 2008 11:55:59 GMT |

  2. Try some of these links:
     
     http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14928.html
     http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/20306.html
     www.bootdisk.com
     
     "Russ" wrote:
     
     > I would like to create a "floppy boot diskette" on a usb thumb drive.
     > - My computer -- which is new hardware (AMD 152 chip) does not have a floppy
     > drive.
     > - The BIOS does recognize all the usb ports for booting.
     > - The BIOS already shows the usb ports as the "First boot device".
     > So my only need is to make the thumb drive bootable.
     > My immediate need for this is to be able to update my BIOS with a flash
     > script, that the instructions say should be put on a bootable floppy.
     > I tried following instructions from this url given out in another thread:
     > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html
     > but I accidentally wiped out (fdisk) my second hard disk containing a
     > solaris installation.
     > Anybody have an easier way? Thanks.
     

     steverollins | Thurs, 05 Jun 2008 11:57:10 GMT |