June 25, 201115 yr I'm usually better at this stuff but pulling my hair out. I just bought 2 - Samsung F4 2TB drives. I got the link to the Samsung firmware update off this site and downloaded the F4EG. The instructions tell you to create a DOS bootable disc and run the file with the HD plugged in as a master. I have an ISO file that is for a DOS 6.6 bootable CD, so I used Magic ISO to add the F4EG file to the ISO and then created the disc. When you browse the CD in widows explorer you see the file. However, when I boot from the CD and run a directory, it doesn't show up. I tried to run it anyway and of course get a bad command error. I'm probably doing something wrong with creating the bootable disc, but pretty stumped as to what. Does anyone have a more reliable way to do this? I know some of you got this to work so I"m missing something.
June 25, 201115 yr Author Dug some more and think I found better instructions. Will mark this solved if they work.
June 25, 201115 yr Author Got it. Never could get a bootable USB drive to work per the other instructions I found, but could boot from the CD and then run the firmware off the USB drive. Successful for both new drives. In theory they should have been fine due to manufacture date, but better safe than sorry.
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