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Posted - Jan 11 2011 : 12:49AM
A 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.

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Thanks. That actually one of the first sites that I found. But, it either appeared that it wanted to install something on my PC that gave me the impression that it wanted to format my hard drive or it was an ISO, so I couldn't add the firmware file to the disc before burning it (I had multiple issues throughout the night before asking here I forget which one I had with the bootdisk files). So I bailed.
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.
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Joey Starr
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Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 12:47AM
If the DOS Boot CD fails, try the Das Boot DVD instead!
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Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 11:02AM
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Posted - Jan 15 2011 : 6:43PM
If you can download a bootable ISO then you can try to use an ISO Editor to add what you need to the image.
Daemon Tools has a fully functional trial according to their website. You can give that a try.
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