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Installing Samsung SSD firmware? (need boot disk that works)
So my SSD hard drive has become extremely SLOW. I am hoping the firmware update fixes the problem, due to the presence of TRIM. However, the firmware update requires a command prompt boot. And as crazy as it sounds, after much searching, I have yet to find a boot disk that actually works. Has Dell offered anyone a working boot disk in order to update this firmware? Is it possibly available as a Dell download?
Surely someone has upgraded their firmware and knows where to get aboot disk that has been tested and actually works?
ejn63
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January 5th, 2011 11:00
Try here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/
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January 5th, 2011 13:00
Thanks for the response. That's the first place I tried, and unfortunately, it didn't work for me.
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January 5th, 2011 15:00
Exactly what did you try, and what happened?
You can get to a command prompt from Windows itself (press F8 before Windows loads).
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April 28th, 2011 15:00
Hello.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I have been away for work, but am back now and would like to try to install this firmware again.
I have tried every boot disk known to man, including Bart's, Ultimate Boot CD, and bootdisk.com. Per a Dell support tech, I even tried to just run the SSD firmware and, according to the tech, it would burn itself to a CD. That did not work.
All the boot disks I've tried don't actually allow you to access your hard drive, so that's a problem for the firmware that needs to wipe my drive. Back in the old DOS days, we'd just install a MSCDEX.exe driver, but apparently that's not how it works these days.
So Dell left us this firmware to install, but with no way to install it. I'm at a bit of a loss on how to do it.
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