how to boot to a:\ prompt with win 2k

[John Bucchino 0]

I want to flash my mb bios and forgot which file has to be on the boot disk to get to an A: prompt

[CUViper 0]

you can't do it with win2k.... find a friend with a win9x system and type "sys a:"

[Dokt 0]

Yea - you need to use W98 - call up a DOS window and type 'format a: /s'

[DosFreak 2]

http://www.myshed.net/sanx/technical.html

[clutch 1]

I just used a DOS boot floppy on one disk, and the BIOS flash util with image on another because they all wouldn't fit together. Never used the harddrive at any time.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[MarksmanX 0]

I don't recommend this. But I've been doing this for years and I still don't have any problems. What I do is boot off the Windows 98SE bootdisk and flash the bios on the Hard Drive It never failed so far

 

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[miku 0]

MarksmanX you are right!

 

That the way I have been doing. Boot of Windows 98 CD and flash the bios of the Hard Drive.

 

Good Job!

 

ARC