That what I did. Then the flash program looked at the disk and said it was OK and added all the files to flash the bios. Pc ----- Original Message ----- From: GCox To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:16 AM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: no format Pc, Why not make a dos system disk then erase the system files on the disk? Won't you have a formatted disk then? gcox Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.