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    How do you make a boot disk to upgrade BIOS on CF-51

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Raven66GT, May 9, 2011.

  1. Raven66GT

    Raven66GT Notebook Enthusiast

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    As the title suggest, i am trying to upgrade the BIOS on the CF-51R/S model. I downloaded the latest BIOS from the Panasonic website. Have unzipped it and tried to copy those files to the DOS boot disk created using XP SP2. The problem is that those files are larger than the free space on the diskette and they will not finish copying.

    The directions from the readme file of the BIOS download say;
    1. create a bootable diskette with no config.sys or autoexec.bat.
    2.) copy contents of the BIOS folder to that boot disk, etc..

    The boot disk that XP created only has 890,000 bytes available and the files to be copied are 1,100,000 bytes.

    So, I've concluded the boot disk that XP created has more files than Panasonic expected, and/or more likely, I don't know what I'm doing and there is another way to create the boot disk.

    Help Please,
    Thanks,
    Joe
     
    Raven66GT, May 9, 2011
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  2. Shawn

    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    copy the bios files to a different floppy. remove boot disk after it finishes booting and insert the bios floppy
     
    Shawn, May 9, 2011
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