USB bootable stick with cdrom support!!

[Cappie]

Seeing as everyone here is constantly whining about bugs in bioses and not having floppy drives anymore etc, I decided to make this short and very easy tutorial on how to make your USB stick into a flashing machine with cdrom support, ramdrive, etc. My previous tutorial still had the main problem of not having cdrom access.

'k here we go, first plug in your USB stick(make sure to backup any DATA still on the stick cuz this process will clear it completely). When thats done download this nifty tool,

BootDisk2BootStick

.NET framework is needed to run this tool, get that from here,

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 X86

or if you'r using 64bit windows,

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 X64

Then download this boot image,

MIRROR 1

Then all that remains is to run the bootstick tool,



go to the "Write to USBStick/Flash" tab, make sure it says "Floppy Disk-Image" as shown above, normally your USBStick's driveletter should already be selected, for me its drive G:\ which happens to be my last drive.

Then just click the START button and a screen will pop up asking you for a Bin-image(*.bin)file, so just browse to my downloaded one,



A warning will pop up notifying you that all data on that target drive will be lost, just click OK and you'll have a ready-for-booting USB stick(make sure ofcourse to change bootorder in bios, to boot from removable drive).

Let me know if it works for you.

PS : I assume most people will burn the biosfile and the biosflashtool on a cdrom which you can then access from DOS. When you do that, I suggest copying the flashtool and biosfile to RAMDRIVE before actually flashing bios. This will rule out any cd-hickups during flashing. When using my bootimage I believe ramdrive is Q:\ and cdrom is R:\, so supposing you burned following files to cdrom,

P5BD0711.ROM ----->> ASUS BIOSFILE(or other brand biosfile)
AFUDOS.exe ----->>> ASUS FLASHTOOL(or whatever other flashtool you need)

then all you type behind command prompt is,

copy R:\*.* Q:\

and files needed for flashing will be on ramdisk, then just traverse to RAMDISK by typing,

Q:\

and flash your bios from there.

You can never be too secure whilst flashing!!!

Note : When booting up from this stick you'll see a selection menu, take "Boot without emm386" here, cuz flashing with emm386 running in background is mucho bad!! Keep in mind, this method will not work if your motherboard does not detect USB devices at bootup.

Edited 31th july '07