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BIOS upgrade/reload without Floppy Drive

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This question relates to my earlier one on a Win XP/Win98 disk boot failure error message and booting problem that I am facing where without installation CD in CD drive I just cant boot but once I boot that way the system runs on the HDD installed OS. Having successfully rewritten on the master boot record fully many times I am now trying to upgrade/reload my Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG for 810ET chipset M/B that I just downloaded from driverguide.com. The problem is this is a new system I was putting together and the Floppy Drive never really worked all right even once. It was always recognised on boot up but no data exchange happen with the M/B smoothly. So I cant really upgrade my BIOS using a boot disk nor can I even make a boot disk on that system. I started building the system on the Friday and all I have achieved in the last 24 hours is I have managed to load Win 98 over Win XP because XP does not give you a DOS prompt to try out things like bootcfg.exe or fdisk/mbr etc etc that I have. So the QUESTION is how do I upgrade my BIOS without needing to use my Floppy Drive. Also if my BIOS upgrade still doesnt solve the problem do I then try changing my M/B itself ??. Would deeply appreciate any useful advice. Thanks

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There is no reason for the floppy not to work. douboe check the cables to the floopoy, make sure its connected in the rigt orientation. You can boot XP into a recovery console to fdisk mbr etc. As for a dos prompt in XP, START, RUN, type in cmd. Will open a dos window. Google recovery console for that. Also, ghost 2003 has many of the same functiosn as fdisk built into gdisk on the recovery cd. GL

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