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Updating Bios Without A Floppy Drive
Name: Dan Date: November 5, 2001 at 19:48:24 Pacific
Comment:
I want to upgrade to Win XP. However, I don't have a floppy drive to update my bios prior to upgrading (I have a laptop). Is there an alternative?
Name: maverickbynite Date: November 5, 2001 at 20:52:07 Pacific
Reply:
I suppose, if you have access to a cd burner, you could burn the dos boot files and BIOS upgrade files to a cd and boot it from there. I've never tried it, but it seems do'able.
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