SK Hynix SC300 M.2 Solid State Drive Firmware Update

- There is the User Account Control warning message popup when launching the tool since this tool runs as administrator. Then, please press Yes to run this tool.
- This tool supports only internal SATA cable connection.
- For important data, it is recommended to save data or keep it backup before updating the firmware.
- Please DO NOT power off or disconnect the solid state drive from host during firmware update is in progress. It could make the drive does not work.

Download

1. Click Download File and follow the remaining prompts to download the file.
2. When the File Download window appears, click Run to unzip the download package into your hard drive.
3. The file explorer will open pointing to the directory containing the download package. Please take note of the path.

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ATTENTION
1. Backup the SSD.
2. Switch to AC Power

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Firmware upgrade through the Windows utility

Procedure
1. Go to the directory containing the download package as noted above.
2. Run the firmware update utility with administrator privilege (right-click on the executable, then select "Run as administrator").
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
4. Check if status is "Ready" in [Update] column.
5. Select a drive(s) in list. The [FW Update] button will be enabled when selected drive is SK Hynix SSD.
6. Click [FW Update].
7. If the update is successful, it displayed in green, otherwise displayed in red.
8. After finishing the update successfully, the tool will ask to reboot the system. If you want to reboot the system, click [OK] button otherwise click [Cancel] button if you want to do later.

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Firmware upgrade using the bootable image

1. An ISO image is provided in the download package. Use that image to create a bootable USB thumb drive. You may want to consider using UNetBootin.
2. Boot the system from the USB thumb drive created in Step 1.
3.Your PC will boot up with Linux booting screen and it displays SSDs that connected to your PC.
4. The FW update tool will seek SK Hynix SC300 SSD. If the tool find a SK Hynix SC300, it will start to update automatically, if not it displays an error message.
5. After successful FW update, PC will shutdown after about 10 sec.

1. Prepare a USB thumb drive
(1) USB storage and ISO image Writer(like UNetBootin) are needed for updating SSD FW with this package.
(2) Run unetbootin-windows-608.exe
(3) Check 'DiskImage' button and select path to ISO file using the ' ... ' option button.
(4) If USB Drive is ready, then UNetbooin will show the driver letter.
(5) Select OK to copy ISO bootable image to USB thumb drive
(6) Once installation is completed, please follow the next steps on UNetbootin Window.

*.Installation Instructions:
For the detail usage of this package, Please refer to the attached Update Tool Manual.