Bios flashing with USB Flash Drive

[JVM]

In the BIOS guide thread it states to copy files to your USB stick to make it a bootable drive. I have the Patriot Xporter XT 4GB Flash Drive and clicked on "Boot Files" in the guide and extracted them and followed instructions. When I opened the Flash Drive to look inside, I did not see any boot files, just the required files for updating BIOS. I used the Flash Drive and updated the BIOS and all went well. My question is do I have to make my USB Flash Drive bootable or is it already bootable since I did not see any boot files in the drive?

[Acebmxer]

if your using Q-flash then it does not need to be bootable unless your flashing from dos then it will need to be bootable.

[Chike]

The system files are hidden unless you choose to see hidden and system files.
You can run from a command prompt "attrib <flash drive letter>:\*" and see IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM there.

[JVM]

Originally Posted by Chike

The system files are hidden unless you choose to see hidden and system files.
You can run from a command prompt "attrib :\*" and see IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM there.

Oh, so the files are there. I was wondering what the heck was going on. So if I decide to now format the Flash Drive, I would erase those boot files, right?

[JVM]

Originally Posted by Acebmxer

if your using Q-flash then it does not need to be bootable unless your flashing from dos then it will need to be bootable.

You have me lost on that one. I use Q-flash by pressing F8 and entering Q-flash mode, so no need to be bootable? The guide seems to suggest making the USB flash bootable when using Q-flash.