On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Bill Haught <wlhaughtpr...@att.net> wrote: > dmccunney: >> Note that says "installation disk". That means you can potentially >> start an install of Vista/7 from a USB drive. It does not mean you >> can create a portable Windows installation that will *run* from a >> thumbdrive. > > Me: If I can copy files to the flash drive and get to a "DOS prompt" and run > a program such as a firmware update I'm happy. I don't need a portable > Windows installation. Even the installation disk allows you to get to the > C:\>. My guess though is that it is a DOS program, in which case I expect the > computer to freeze before bricking the hard drive.
The issue isn't that it's a DOS program - it's that it needs sole access to and control of the drive while it does the firmware update. That *can't* be done from Windows, which is why you boot from bootable media running something like DOS, and all DOS does is serve as a loader to run the update program that flashes the drive BIOS with an updated image. > I can probably do without. It doesn't really seem worth all this effort. I > like to keep everything up to date. So do I. But updates like that I've seen have been compatibility fixes for particular systems. Ivf you don't have one of those systems, you don't need to apply the update, as it doesn't get you anything you don't already have. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
