Now, the system is booting up with new BIOS. OTOH, BIOS update USB sticks do not have to be bootable but they should just have one partition, FAT32 file system, and. Select "Exit Saving Changes" and press to exit the BIOS setup utility. Then you will see a warning window, click 'OK' in it to continue. In the new window, set the Partition label, File system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4/exFAT), and Cluster size for the partition to be formatted, then click 'OK'. In Exit menu, please select "Load Default Settings" and press to continue. Run EaseUS Partition Master, right-click the hard drive partition you intend to format and choose 'Format'. 4 - USB drive Booting with Windows Boot Manager Menu in BIOS or UEFI Mode. 3 - Copy Linux ISO files to folder images on FAT32 - Boot UEFI Grub2 and BIOS Grub4dos. 2 - UEFIMULTI can Add VHD or PE WIM File Booting from RAMDISK.
Please extract the zip file after downloading the BIOS rom file from ASRock website.
The Format dialog box now appears.ĩ) Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.ASRock BIOS Upgrade Instruction There are two methods to update the BIOS using Instant Flash. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. It opens the Properties dialog box.Ħ) By default, the Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then press OK.ħ) Now open Computer. Select the disk or partitions you want to erase. Select Wipe disk here to wipe a USB drive, click Next to continue. You can either wipe selected partitions & unallocated space, or wipe all the partitions on the disk.
2) Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press Enter.Ĥ) Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. If you already have a partition of at least 500 MB in size on your USB flash drive formatted with a FAT (not NTFS) file system then skip to the next step (3). Launch the software, go to Tools and select Disk Wipe. If you do not wanna waste time going through my unnecessarily long steps, here are the short steps that helped me:ġ) Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port. Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. I went through a bit of trouble searching the web (could be easy for you and you do not need to read this). Here are 5 such tools that will put either FreeDOS or MS-DOS onto a bootable USB flash drive allowing you to update the BIOS firmware from DOS but without a floppy drive. But I could not reuse my Flash drive normally as a storage device after this process. Then I gave up on the Ubuntu dream, almost!. I am puting this tutorial after a failed attempt at installing ubuntu using a Flash drive as a BOOTABLE device.