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My bios allows me to use a usb thumb drive, but I don't know how common that is. |
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On 9/16/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote: |
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> >> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> |
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> >>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> >>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to |
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> >>>> write to. |
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> >>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios |
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> >>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted |
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> >>> to. |
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> >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the |
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> >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk. |
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> >>> No floppy, no cry ;) |
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> >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic |
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> >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? |
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> > good luck, boy. |
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> > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files. |
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> > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very |
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> > well |
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> Hi, |
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> Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe). |
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> Rumen |
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