Floppy Format on USB Drive (or other)?

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Denaes

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my computer (Dell Inspirion 8500) has a bios update, but it's only available on a Floppy Image.

Now, it being a laptop, I don't have a floppy drive and I didn't think they were still a standard. I'd at least like the option to burn it to disk or throw it on my USB Jump Drive and boot from one of those two devices.

Anyone know if/how this is possible?
 
Denaes said:
my computer (Dell Inspirion 8500) has a bios update, but it's only available on a Floppy Image.

Now, it being a laptop, I don't have a floppy drive and I didn't think they were still a standard. I'd at least like the option to burn it to disk or throw it on my USB Jump Drive and boot from one of those two devices.

Anyone know if/how this is possible?
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Cant you burn to CDROM and then set your current bios setup to boot from cdrom?

Dell is pretty good about making an EXE flash
 
Joe Mamma said:
Cant you burn to CDROM and then set your current bios setup to boot from cdrom?

Dell is pretty good about making an EXE flash
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1 is .exe harddrive flash.

Another is floppy only.

I remember in the past (when my desktop's A: drive went on the fritz) all the bootdisks were in a special format and couldn't be burned to CD, but I found a special app to go into the Floppy image and extract the files, similar to what WinISO does with CD images.
 
Joe Mamma said:
and you dont want to use this???
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One is just general Bios Flash, that one is a .exe on the hard drive.

the Bios Flash for the video card functions is floppy only. Two distinct updates... maybe updating different devices?
 
Do you actually need this bias upgrade? Most of the time they are irrelevent.

I wouldnt TRY an untested method of doing a bias upgrade, not something u want to go wrong!
 
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