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How do you boot to DOS in Vista?

Discussion in 'Windows - General discussion' started by cj1976, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. cj1976

    cj1976 Member

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    I need to boot to real dos so I can flash the bios on my GPU using ATIFLASH. However, I don't have a floppy drive on my PC. Virtual floppy doesn't seem to work with Vista 64, so I'm a bit puzzled.
    I downloaded a boot-disk CD image, but when I went into DOS, my computer wouldn't access the CD-ROM.
    Has anyone had experience of doing this?
    Thanks in advance
     
  2. silk42

    silk42 Regular member

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    Here's a well written guide on how to create a bootable USB DOS drive.

    http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

    I wanted to note that the CD-ROM doesn't work if it's SATA. However, you can simply copy the files that you need to the thumb drive and install the firmware from it.
     
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