making startup disk from W2K?

[RoCo]

I only have W2K installed on my system and I want to make a bootable diskette to be used for BIOS flashing?
I tried format a: /s from the command prompt but it wouldn't work. Now, I still have old startup disks from Win 98 and have no problems flashing the bios but still I really wonder how is this supposed to be done through W2K.

 

[serialb]

If you just need a boot disk for BIOS flashing, go here and get a Windows 98 bootdisk.

 

[RoCo]

Thanks for the link, I appreciate that. As I mentioned before I do have couple of Win98 startup disks laying around. I simply wanted to know how it is to be done throughW2K. I should be possible right?

I know how to make ERD disk and the 4 W2K startup disks but I could find an option for a simple bootable diskette. Could it be because W2K does have any DOS?

 

[corkyg]

A DOS bootup disk, whether from Win98, 95, DOS 6.X, etc., does not go THROUGH W2K . . . in fact it doesn't even know you have it. If all you want to do is flash BIOS etc., it is AOK. If you have NTFS on your HDD, it will not be able to see it . . . but for BIOS flashing, machts nicht!

 

[rbV5]

WinXP has no DOS either, but right click on a:>format>look to the bottom of the dialog box "create a MSDOS startup disk" and there it is, IO.sys; command.com.....but don't know about Win2k, but if you already have the bootdisk, and you know how to flash with it..............huh?

 

[dcdomain]

Win2K bootdisk? Grab the CD and there's a .exe or something there to create bootdisks. I never used it so I can't be more specific.