BIOS flash from WinXP boot disk

External Since: Nov 15, 2004 Posts: 37

If I boot from a WinXP floppy, will there be enough memory to flash my 8kha+
BIOS? I recall from a few years ago that one almost had to boot from an
MS-DOS boot disk to have enough free memory for the flash program to work.

Thanks.

External Since: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 51

Yes. XP does make an msdos boot disk. To make sure, go ahead and delete
all files on the boot disk except command.com and io.sys and msdos.sys.
Then put the bios files on it and flash away.

DaveL

"Lee M." <lmacmil RemoveThis @forget_it.com> wrote in message
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> If I boot from a WinXP floppy, will there be enough memory to flash my
> 8kha+ BIOS? I recall from a few years ago that one almost had to boot
> from an MS-DOS boot disk to have enough free memory for the flash program
> to work.
>
> Thanks.
>