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Basically I agree (which also can be understood from my first hasty answer).
But, if you have to come up with other solutions a bootable CD can be one of theese.
You always put your mobo at a risk when upgrading the BIOS. One small chance is that there will happen something with the power (unless it's a laptop or you have a PSU (or what they are called) of course), onechance that the new BIOS-version is totally wrecked and never let you boot again. So, using the flash-util you normally make a backup on the floppy that you normally use and then there is a chance that you can back it up in case of catastrophy. (This is not always possible.) The backup could also be placed at the harddrive (not equally safe but better than nothing) if the flash-util permits this. (IMHO)
For the record: I just made a bootable CD as described above using Nero. The resulting CD booted fine, used same amount of memory as a boot-floppy, got the drive label A: and could access my fat-partitions. No problems so far. Then I also made an ISO of the CD and it came out in the size of 63k.
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