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problem with HP bootkey maker for flashing BIOS

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Kevin5255

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I'm trying to use a USB cardreader with an SD card in it that basically functions as a thumb driver to make a bootkey to flash the BIOS of my 8800GT. I'm following the tutorial here at [H], but whenever I try to make a bootkey with the HP bootkey utility, the drive shows up as completely empty. Is there a problem here, or should I just suck it up and buy a stupid thumbdrive?
 
you need to add bootable systems files (aka ms-dos files) for it to boot. try googling "ms-dos files for bootable flash drive", since it should apply for sd cards as well..


the only limitation is that some motherboards/bios don't allow boot from sd cards.
 
You might also have to set the partition on the SD card to active(I've had to do this with thumbdrives before to get them to boot). I'm not sure if you can do it through Disk Manager, although if you can, it would be as simple as right-clicking on My Computer(or Computer if you're running Vista) and selecting Manage, then select Storage and then Disk Management(local). Right-click on the SD card's partition and select Mark Partition as Active. If you can't do it through Disk Manager, let me know and I'll tell you how to do it through Diskpart.
 
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