Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk - Asus P2-M2A690G - P Series - 0 MB RAM User Manual

5.1.2

Creating a bootable floppy disk

1. Do any of the following to create a bootable floppy disk.
The floppy device used here is a USB floppy device.
DOS environment
a. Insert a 1.44MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. At the DOS prompt, type format A:/S then press <Enter>.
Windows XP environment
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a. Insert a 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.
b. Click Start from the Windows
c. Select the 3 1/2 Floppy Drive icon.
d. Click File from the menu, then select Format. A Format 3 1/2 Floppy
Disk window appears.
e. Select Create an MS-DOS startup disk from the format options field,
then click Start.
Windows 2000 environment
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To create a set of boot disks for Windows
a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk into the drive.
b. Insert the Windows
c. Click Start, then select Run.
d. From the Open field, type
D:\bootdisk\makeboot a:
assuming that D: is your optical drive.
e. Press <Enter>, then follow the screen instructions to continue.
Windows Vista environment
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a. Insert a formatted, high density 1.44 MB floppy disk to the floppy disk
drive.
b. Click
c. Right-click Floppy Disk Drive then click Format to display the Format 3
1/2 Floppy dialog box.
d. Select the Create an MS-DOS startup disk check box.
e. Click Start.
2. Copy the original or the latest motherboard BIOS file to the bootable floppy
disk.
ASUS P2-M2A690G
desktop, then select My Computer.
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2000 CD to the optical drive.
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from the Windows
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2000:
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desktop, then select Computer.
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