HELP! Problem booting thru USB using RUFUS

[feitz]

Hi,

I have a problem trying to boot to FreeDOS using RUFUS application to create a bootable USB.

USB used: 16GB Toshiba USB2.0 thumddrive
SW used: RUFUS. set to "MBR partition for BIOS or UEFI computer", FAT32, Create a bootable disk using FreeDOS.

In BIOS, the thumbdrive is recognised as UEFI device and i set it to first BOOT. no second boot device.

After saving the BIOS setting and restart. Thumbdrive did not boot and i was shown the BIOS screen again...

Anyone has any experience using RUFUS?

Thanks!

Background: I need to boot to DOS using bootable USB to apply wdidle3 on my scorpio blue HDD drive.... excessive load cycle problem.

 

[feitz]

the problem with my BIOS seems to be that it supports UEFI mode only....

 

[yusoffb01]

I dont think freedos supports uefi? so try to revert back to legacy bios

 

[feitz]

i wish i can change to legacy bios but my bios seem to run only uefi...

 

[feitz]

problem resolved. managed to boot to fedora live USB and run idle3-tools (linux equivalent to wdidle3). Case closed!