Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

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jimkselsf

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how can I copy a 4 mg qflash file to a 1.44 mb floppy to update my bios? my mobo is a gigabyte h61n-usb3. i have been struggling to update my bios via a pen drive without luck. The flash utility keeps saying "no drive found" no matter where i plug it to. The best I encountered was when I plugged in an external floppy drive and the flash utility detected it, but the flash file is too big (around 4 MB) to be copied to the floppy disk. I have read somewhere that when the utility failed to detect the pen drive, someone copied the flash file to a floppy disk and was successfully update the bios. Too bad the guy didn't say how did he fit a 4 mb file into a 1.44 mb diskette. I have tried different pen drive and formatted (not quick format) with fat32. USB Storage was also enabled in BIOS.
I was told not to use @BIOS to flash it in Windows as it may screwed up the os. But if I find no other solution with the QFlash, then may be that's the route I'll take. Please help.
 


you need the whole harddisk formatted in fat32 I think ... not mixed partitions. try ALL FA32 harddisk . also , are you enabeling some security on your pc files ? like encryption or w/e ?