Indeed, the USB drive must be FAT32-formatted. I think FS0 (filesystem 0) is the EFI partition on the internal boot drive; you should see too an FS1 or FS2 filesystem when the USB flash drive is recognised.
If you have problems with a FAT32 drive yet, try inserting it on a USB port before turning on the workstation. For some reason I had to do it this way in the past. As a last resource you can copy the BIOS update file to the internal EFI partition, but I certainly do not recommend this solution.
You need to copy the EXE file to the flash drive (currently Precision_3630_2.4.2.exe). The BIOS updater will extract anything it needs from this file. I do not know a lot about the RCV file, it is possibly used to recover the system from a non-working state when the firmware updater is not reachable after a bad BIOS upgrade. Hopefully you will not need to go so far!
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Hi howiedoit.
Indeed, the USB drive must be FAT32-formatted. I think FS0 (filesystem 0) is the EFI partition on the internal boot drive; you should see too an FS1 or FS2 filesystem when the USB flash drive is recognised.
If you have problems with a FAT32 drive yet, try inserting it on a USB port before turning on the workstation. For some reason I had to do it this way in the past. As a last resource you can copy the BIOS update file to the internal EFI partition, but I certainly do not recommend this solution.
You need to copy the EXE file to the flash drive (currently Precision_3630_2.4.2.exe). The BIOS updater will extract anything it needs from this file. I do not know a lot about the RCV file, it is possibly used to recover the system from a non-working state when the firmware updater is not reachable after a bad BIOS upgrade. Hopefully you will not need to go so far!