Floppy Format on USB Drive (or other)?

[Denaes]

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

Now, it being a laptop, I dont have a floppy drive and I didnt think they were still a standard. Id 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?

 

[Joe Mamma]

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

Now, it being a laptop, I dont have a floppy drive and I didnt think they were still a standard. Id 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?

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

 

[Denaes]

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

1 is .exe harddrive flash.

Another is floppy only.

I remember in the past (when my desktops A: drive went on the fritz) all the bootdisks were in a special format and couldnt 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]

1 is .exe harddrive flash.

and you dont want to use this???

 

[Denaes]

and you dont want to use this???

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?

 

[Jay1b]

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!