How to flash your BIOS without a floppy drive

Hey there, thanks for the info. I have done this up to the final stage of creating a BIOs subfolder. However, it do not seem to be working for me. I am using a 1gig usb pendrive, yet I get the message that there isn't enough memory to add the biggest file in the BIOS folder into the BIOs sub-folder. is there something am doing wrong?El.

i have same problem at end of installation and cannot get it to work largest file doesnt install in pen due to no space but am using 8gb pen. I have tried with three pens and to no availhelp please

Can you create the bootable drive successfully but not copy the BIOS files over, or does the make a bootable drive step fail..? I did this with a 1Gb drive and only 700Kb or so is in use by the end.

bootable step works but when i try to copy bios files over it says destination drive full and i have tried with 1gb,2gb pen and 8gb sd card. It is always the EN011IMS.105 1,024 KB FILE that doesnt copy over. I have followed evry step word by word

Mobo manufacturers have release bios updates that can run from inside windows for years now. They just load them selves into memory.Also they more recently have stated to use some Bootable CDs/USBs because there are *no* more floppy drives. Do some research you retard.

Yeah, flashing your BIOS from inside Windows is a magnificent idea. Maybe it's you who should do the research.Using a CD is a waste of a disc when you can just put the necessary files on a thumb drive and update that way.Unfortunately, with the netbooks you need to go to some length to do it, but it's still better than wasting a CD.And an external FDD can be bought for less than $15 these days. You could run into some difficulty finding floppies, though.

Guys,it works,but what he did forgot to tell is that when you load the dos disk immage onto the WinImage application,you must go into the Image menu and select change format,then sellect 2.8mb disk.After that save it as an .IMA file and everything works great,flash files fit.

:D Yes, i did it, without FDD, I flashed my ITE Raid Card and I solved my problems with my HDDs. Great explanation and great utility. 10X a lot. :lol:

Thanks,for the help. It was driving me nuts... You did a great job,,,,,

Thanks for the awesome article! It's nice to have something up to date telling us how to do this.

Dang updating the bios is a pain in the arse though!

It doesn't work on me.
Error reading .rom file.

I have an asus m2n-mx se mainboard and an antec case without floppy connectors.

Anyway good article!

hi guys,i did everything step-by-step but when i boot from pendrive it show the same screen as above 'banana' no drivers found,i dont know what to type in there (A:/????). i read about that i should write there 'flash.bat' 'eafudos.bat' but its not working.can u help please,thx

hey, my pendrive is empty after step 10 there are 0 bytes in the drive. HELP!

cias you need to change directory (cd "letter of usb" :)eg. A:/cd F:the go: cd biosthen type: flash

sorry or easier just type in Flash.batlol

i managed to do all of the above ok, once prompted at dos A: i ran teh flash and as it does started erasing bios etc and said complete. I read you then have to shutdown laptop, remove battery and plug, the replug battery turn on laptp and then goto BIOS SETUP and LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS and save.But now that im turning the laptop on im not gettin anythin just a black screen. before i didnt put usb floppy as 1st priorty for boot, is that why should it of been the HD but it says above to change priorty???any help please

i know from above post sounds as if laptop is a dead piece of plastic but playin around with it i got the MSI startup (previously Medion) and pressin F11 got into bios and laods default but its turned off and again nothing.

great article, but... my bios file is 3,155k. how do i format Image to more than 2.88mb so the file will fit??

It worked perfectly, but I had to change the image name from FLASH.IMA to FLASH.IMG.... WinImage didn't give the option of naming it .img. But other than that, it was a breeze, thanks!!

"Mobo manufacturers have release bios updates that can run from inside windows for years now. They just load them selves into memory.Also they more recently have stated to use some Bootable CDs/USBs because there are *no* more floppy drives. Do some research you retard."
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA - I love this, he jumped onto this howto and makes the above statement - a perfect example of the noisy minority of morons on the internet. Great article by the way - ignore the haters :)

If this is for a usb drive why are you having us select floppy drive in hp utility??