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No Floppy - Flashing Laptop Bios

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Name: randy_s
Date: July 6, 2005 at 08:13:48 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: Pentium M/256
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Hello fellas and ladies...

I was having a problem with my USB 2.0 drives on my laptop reading as 1.1. I visited the Toshiba website to discover that there was a BIOS flash update to correct the problem. I thought "Great! Finally my external HD will stay connected!". Then I go over to me laptop and realize that there is no floppy. Ugh. So I look at Toshiba's BIOS utility again and discover that I can create a image CD that will flash. Well, the image won't take to the disk using Nero Burning. Besides that, I didn't think it was possible to flash the BIOS with a cd.

So, my question is... if I get an external floppy will I be able to boot with it and flash my BIOS with it? I'm a little frustrated with the cd image and Toshiba even indicates that using the image isn't the best way.

BTW, thanks for the free advice! It is greatly appreicated.

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Name: bob819
Date: July 6, 2005 at 08:22:24 Pacific
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I have a Toshiba laptop, saw the BIOS update, downloaded the .ISO file, used Nero to burn it on a CD and booted and it worked. I think you could have serious problems trying to boot from an external floppy which is normally USB since my Tosh does not allow booting from USB.
Have a good look at Nero, burning an ISO file is fairly straightforward.
Bob Mitchell.


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Name: houston1981
Date: July 7, 2005 at 21:24:36 Pacific
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Yeah make sure you use "Burn image to disk" and not just burn the ISO file itself to the disk

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