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Bill  All-Star Member  5334 Posts 6/00 |  Posted - Jan 11 2011 : 12:49AMA couple of my hard drives need a firmware update in order to prevent possible data loss on writes. However, the firmware can only be loaded while in DOS. Although Samsung's download instructions seem to imply that the firmware download includes DOS software, it doesn't. It just includes the firmware executable. Can someone tell me how to (or point me to a site the will tell me how to) create a DOS bootable CD, which also includes the firmware executable. My machine is running Windows 7. Thanks. [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 11 2011 : 1:29AM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 11 2011 : 7:48PM Today, I found a page that someone put together to give detailed instructions on how to apply the patch using a USB Flash drive. I wasn't able to use MiniDOS with the HP Format Tool because it doesn't support FAT32. But, since I now had an idea of what I needed to do, I found this page that had MS DOS Files for Windows 98. Once I got the flash drive loaded, everything worked perfectly. I don't think that I was actually exposed to the problem that the firmware fixed because I didn't have S.M.A.R.T turned on, which, I believe is what issued the identify command that causes the conflict with an NCQ write command. If I was exposed to the problem, it's only been for the last two weeks as it wasn't until I installed a new SSD into my PC that I changed the SATA mode to AHCI from IDE. [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 12:47AM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 11:02AM [Link] |
| liloleme Senior Member My favorite cartoon as a kid 1666 Posts 10/06 | Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 6:43PM Daemon Tools has a fully functional trial according to their website. You can give that a try. Daemon Tools [Link] |
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