How can I make a bootable CD containing a BIOS Flash for a Satellite A40-151

My BIOS is corrupted and requires reloading, but my Laptop does not have a floppy disk drive. I can't find any instructions on how to create a CD to load the new BIOS within the Toshiba site accept a reference to follow the instructions in the Toshiba folder on the Laptop. This I can't view as Window XP has not started because of the BIOS failure.
Has anyone any ideas or could someone e-mail me the instruction please.
Waiting in anticipation.
Kind regards,
MikeyT.

Markus,
Thanks for replying.
Yes I have been to link you suggested but the section for a A40 only covers the process with a floppy disk, there's no mention of a process for CD drive only machines.
The reason I believe this a is a BIOS problem is that many web sites talk about resolving my problem by reloading the BIOS. They also talk about hardware checks which I have done.
Here is some more detail. My laptop crashed overnight whilst online. Possibly caused by a windows update as they are turned for auto install. Since then when I re-boot windows fails to load and I am left with the screen with the windows safe mode options. When I choose any of these windows starts to load but stops at the file MUP.sys.
I can load the windows recover console and have tried the repair option but this made no difference. I have also used CHKDSK \p and \r, they both found no errors on the HD.
I have checked the BIOS settings and they are all the same as factory default but there's no reset option.
So as you can see I'm bit stuck.
Any help gratefully received.
Kind Regards,
MikeyT.

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