InstantFlash not detecting BIOS file
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Topic: InstantFlash not detecting BIOS file
Posted By: JasonASR
Subject: InstantFlash not detecting BIOS file
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2019 at 11:47pm
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MB: X470 Gaming ITX/ac BIOS: 3.60 I have updated my motherboard BIOS many times in past without issue. With the new BIOS file, I cannot get the UEFI InstantFlash to recognize a suitable BIOS file. I can only format USB drive as exFAT, not FAT32. I don't remember if this was possible previously. |
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Posted By: jdillipl
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2019 at 12:01am
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It should be possible. What is the capacity of the USB flash drive? Jake ------------- Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac, Amd Ryzen 7 1700, GSkill FlareX F4-2400C16D-32GFX, RaidMax Thunder V2 735W PS |
Posted By: JasonASR
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2019 at 2:03am
Unfortunately I cannot format it as FAT32, even using PowerShell or Command Prompt. It is 64 GB. I used same drive previously, too, but now I can't even get the motherboard to recognize the old BIOS files. |
jdillipl wrote:Posted By: jdillipl
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2019 at 3:27am
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Did you try Powershell or Command Prompt run as Administrator? Jake ------------- Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac, Amd Ryzen 7 1700, GSkill FlareX F4-2400C16D-32GFX, RaidMax Thunder V2 735W PS |
Posted By: jdillipl
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2019 at 3:45am
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My mistake, sorry. Windows will not format a drive (or partition) larger than 32GB as FAT32. Do you have a smaller USB flash drive? Jake ------------- Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac, Amd Ryzen 7 1700, GSkill FlareX F4-2400C16D-32GFX, RaidMax Thunder V2 735W PS |
Posted By: JasonASR
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2019 at 6:16pm
| Well, I just reformatted drive as NTFS and it worked. |
Posted By: jdillipl
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2019 at 1:55am
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Congratulations, your system board and BIOS will read NTFS. This is not guaranteed, hence the recommendation to use FAT32. So you got your BIOS updated? Jake ------------- Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac, Amd Ryzen 7 1700, GSkill FlareX F4-2400C16D-32GFX, RaidMax Thunder V2 735W PS |
Posted By: JasonASR
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2020 at 11:20am
| Yes, it flashed BIOS without issue. So we have to keep tiny USB drives on hand now to update ASRock BIOS? |
Posted By: jdillipl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2020 at 3:36am
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Smaller than 32GB, or get a third party formatting utility. Jake ------------- Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac, Amd Ryzen 7 1700, GSkill FlareX F4-2400C16D-32GFX, RaidMax Thunder V2 735W PS |