Flashing BIOS without a floppy

One of my pet peeves in computers is the continued reliance of hardware makers to create updates, like BIOS, that are designed to be used with floppy disk drives, despite the fact that a lot of the updates are now larger than the 1.44MB that a traditional floppy disk could hold. For almost ten years, USB ports have been standard on systems and it is as difficult to find a new system without USB ports as it is to find one with a floppy drive (although you can buy external floppy drives that plug in through USB).

To complicate things even more, there is not a standard for writing files to USB or CDs for use in flashing hardware devices. As a person who works on servers a lot, this is a real pain!

However, I finally found a link that is fairly easy to use to make a USB drive into a bootable DOS drive that files can be written and deleted from: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/46707-ms-dos-bootable-flash-drive-create.html

So hopefully, I'll remember this the next time I have to do a flash! :)