Best Way to flash bios?

I've currently been reading about flashing bios, which I have discovered numerous ways to accomplish the same task. My question is what does everyone preferr, and how can u flash a bios if you dont have a floppy drive (assuming your using a beta bios and cannot use the windows bios update).
The first method I have seen is by flashing the bios using 2 discs... one a win 98 boot disk (which I had to find online because I'm running xp)... the other a disc with the award patching prog and the bios itself....it seems to me this is the only method in which users using windows xp (home/pro) with NTFS can flash their bios (Except option 2 which is not recommended as being safe). It works by creating a "ROM drive" in the systems memory and can avoid using the C: as it is protected by NTFS.... This is unfortunatly a pain unless you have floppies and a floppy drive.
Option 2 involes using one disc as a boot disk (xp boot disk) and then putting the bios files on that disc aswell.. This will cause the flashing to take place reading purely off the floppy (which I have read is not recommended, and I must agree as floppy drives are pretty old technology that has frequent problems).
The third and final option is to use the Windows Bios Update program which installes the bios with xp running (something I still dont fully understand how can be accomplished)... the big downside to this method is that as far as I can tell only the official bios can be used to do this... ruling out all beta versions from being used ... a dissapointment in my opinion.
In conclusion, what do you all recomend and/or do you have methods that are safer or easier? Thanks For your time

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