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04-07-2009
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| Windows Vista home Premium SP1 | HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? HP-Update FIRMWARE update problem? I got some critical update for my Seagate 320 gb hard drive’s firmware. I went to download an process the update, later it asked me to insert a blank disk. Well I don’t have a blank disk but I hit bootable cd anyway thinking it would create some file on the hard drive. Well obviously that’s not what it had in mind because my disk drive opened, I shut the disk drive and it started saying writing data to disk. HOW could it do that with no disk. I couldn’t close it. It then said installation succesfull. What the heck. I restarted my computer to see if I had screwed up my system and it seams to be running fine. Have I screwed up my hard drive? Did the dang update install? Can I delete these firmware updte files lying around on my desktop? Please help me???? |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem?  Quote: Originally Posted by GreatNate  HP-Update FIRMWARE update problem? I got some critical update for my Seagate 320 gb hard drive’s firmware. I went to download an process the update, later it asked me to insert a blank disk. Well I don’t have a blank disk but I hit bootable cd anyway thinking it would create some file on the hard drive. Well obviously that’s not what it had in mind because my disk drive opened, I shut the disk drive and it started saying writing data to disk. HOW could it do that with no disk. I couldn’t close it. It then said installation succesfull. What the heck. I restarted my computer to see if I had screwed up my system and it seams to be running fine. Have I screwed up my hard drive? Did the dang update install? Can I delete these firmware updte files lying around on my desktop? Please help me???? I dont know what happened, but You HAVE to burn the bootable disk, and then boot into it after a restart in order to update the firmware. |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows Vista home Premium SP1 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? the update is to prevent some error code on start up, for certian affected hard drives. Is it something I HAVE to do? My computer runs fine? |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista x64 Ultimate | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? Is the hard drive in RAID? You need to usually break the RAID to put firmware on the hard drive. Backup before doing it. It can crash your OS. |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows Vista home Premium SP1 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? I dont know how to do any of this. Its a basic compaq computer with a seagate 320 gig hard drive. |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista x64 Ultimate | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? Call them for help. You do it wrong, it can damage your hard drive. Before doing it, backup everything. |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? According to your specs it only shipped with one (1) sata 320GB HDD. Thus no RAID. http://www.shopping.com/xPF-Compaq-C...Monitor-BUNDLE Simply burn the bootable disk, insert it into the drive, restart and hit any key at prompt to boot into it. (you may have to go into the BIOS and change the boot order to CD-ROM, if it is set to boot first off the HDD (recovery partition) note- I would still use Vista's File Backup Utility before upgrading the firmware. |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista x64 Ultimate | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? Some manufacturers configure one disk as RAID 0. I don't know why. |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? Quote: Originally Posted by SCSIraidGURU Some manufacturers configure one disk as RAID 0. I don't know why. I suspect HP has a C: Drive and a D: Drive recovery partition. |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows Vista home Premium SP1 | Re: HP UPDATE FIRMWARE update problem? Do you think I really need to do it?, only a small number of hard drives have the problem |
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