There's no reason why you can't flash the BIOS from the HDD, or any other
source.
However, my experience with this task has always been to do it in DOS - not
sure how you'd go about this in Win2K.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doyle Hirsch" Subject: [PCBUILD] Flashing the Bios
> Hello:
>
> A friend of mine has one of those legacy free PC's runnning W2K. He wants
to upgrade to WINXP Pro but needs to flash the bios. Since he has no floppy
drive, how dow he do it? He does have an external ZIP Drive.
>
>
> TIA
> Doyle Hirsch
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