Can't Boot Into DOS with a Vista boot disc

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Can't Boot Into DOS with a Vista boot disc

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I'm trying to update the BIOS on an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard and can't use EZ-Flash as the board doesn't support this utility. This forces the use of a floppy drive... I've created a bootable floppy in Vista and after rebooting it has an error and won't boot into DOS...

All my systems right now are Vista, so I can make an XP Boot disc... Can someone make one for me and zip it up and e-mail it to me?

The Vista Boot Disc File Structure looks like this:
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Re: Can't Boot Into DOS with a Vista boot disc

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You've got mail! I wonder if its a widespread issue?

My word, i forgot how slow floppies are >_<

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Well apparently your email of [email protected] doesn't work. And attachment options on the forums are too clever to bypass, but fortunately I have access to some ftp at uni. Let me know when you have got it so i can take it back down.
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got it figured out... the first two floppies were bad too... floppies are ghetto
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