Make a Bootable USB Thumb Drive to do BIOS update

This is an easy USB makeable download for computers that boot off of a USB device.
 

The file is called ‘Make bootable usb.zip’ and it’s in the online Utilities folder.

 

The reason I needed it was to do a BIOS update on a PC that wouldn’t boot to windows.  Many BIOS update programs run off windows or only a bootable DOS device.  I copied the BIOS I downloaded from Dell onto the thumb drive after I made it into a bootable device.

 

Of course, adjust the BIOS on the computer to boot to a USB device and also, the HP installer to make the boot USB device will ask you to point to the DOS directory for making it boot, that is in the same directory as what you downloaded, so don’t look too hard.  It just needs the ‘command’ file to boot.

 

After it booted to the DOS thumb drive, I just typed the name of the BIOS update file and it worked great.

 

Kurt Rein
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