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      08-20-2010
Hey all.

Here's my problem.

I've got this nvidia 8800 gt I'm trying to flash the bios for so it can be used on a mac.
Now, I'm not asking for mac help, so don't worry.

What I am asking is some help with setting up a boot disc.

I, for some reason, thought this would be easier than it has been, but alas, it's been a real pain

I'm not sure exactly what to do to get a usb drive to boot, and I've been unsuccessful with boot cds. I made one with the win 98se dos files that boots fine, but I don't know what to do to the disc during burning to get it to see the files I'm trying to add. I followed this one guys tutorial on making a boot disc with img burn from youtube, and it was pretty straight forward, except the disc I make doesn't end up having a "boot" folder that I can insert files into.

I actually ended up getting a floppy drive out of frustration, only to find my motherboard doesn't have an ide port for floppy drives. Which makes me wonder, is there a way to get a floppy drive to work on the larger ide ports, like some kind of cable or something.

Anyway.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks.
 
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      08-20-2010
Hi Randizzl

What file system are you wanting on the USB flash drive?
fat16, fat32, or ntfs

Are you wanting a boot manager placed on the drive?
 
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      08-20-2010
I'm sure fat32 would be fine, optimal really.
I'm not sure I need a boot manager. I'm a bit ignorant as to what that would do for me.

I just need to get into a low level system environment so I can run the nvflash executable and flash this video card's bios.
 
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      08-20-2010
Here is an article I just found. Would these steps not work for you?

If you don't have a floppy drive, there are ways to use virtual floppy drives.

How To: Boot BartPE from a FAT32 formatted USB drive (Easy)
 
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      08-20-2010
Yea, I did Bart's thing.
It did nothing.
I followed his steps exactly, and it simply wouldn't boot my usb drive.
I mean, I'm not an idiot and know how to set my bios and all.

Completely unsuccessful.
 
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      08-20-2010
Here is a slightly related thread

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Help...

It's not an fat32 format but maybe it will help you alittle

I'm afraid I have only tried making a USB Flash Drive bootable with ntfs file system.
 
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      08-21-2010
Well, I looked those over but I'm not wanting to make something bootable in order to install windows, or any operating system for that matter. I just want to flash the bios of a video card.
 
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