Flash BIOS w/o Floppy?

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How do I flash the BIOS on my AK31 v3 ? There's not a working floppy drive
on this machine. I've downloaded

AK31S2EK.BIN
AK31S2EK.EXE
AWDFLASH.EXE

The machine runs XP. Can I put these on c: and boot to command prompt and
run one of them? Which one?

How large a HD will the AK31S2EK BIOS support?

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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:08:55 -0000, Conor <conor.turton@gmail.com>
wrote:

>You got Nero CD burning software?
>
>Fire up Nero and select CD-ROM (Boot). Under the Boot tab, enable expert
>settings and set the boot emulation to Floppy Emulation, 1.44MB. Click
>on New and select the files you've named above.
>
>Burn the CD and restart the computer, enter BIOS, set to boot from CDROM
>and boot it off the CDROM you've just burned.

Thanks.

I found a 3.5" floppy drive at the flea market for 25 cents. I got it
to work, and successfully installed AK31S2EK.

I can't imagine why one couldn't do a safe boot command prompt only
and run AWDFLASH AK31S2EK.BIN from c: but it's not the sort of thing
I wish to experiment with.

The reason I upgraded the BIOS is that I want to install a larger Hard
Drive. I'm looking at a 250 GB drive from Western Digital:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProd [...] 309&depa=1

Will this thing plug right in and work now that I've flashed my AK31
to AK31S2EK ?