Re: [Freedos-user] legacy ATA support

[Bill H. <wlh...@at...>]

dmccunney:
Note that says "installation disk".  That means you can potentially
start an install of Vista/7 from a USB drive.  It does not mean you
can create a portable Windows installation that will *run* from a
thumbdrive.

Me:
If I can copy files to the flash drive
and get to a "DOS prompt" and run a program such as a firmware update 
I'm happy.  I don't need a portable Windows installation.  My guess 
though is that it is a DOS program, in which case I expect the computer 
to freeze before bricking the hard drive. 


>>Incidentally, why do you need to flash the BIOS on the WD drive?

>>If the drive is performing as expected, it might not be necessary.
>>Does the BIOS update provide something you have to have?

I can probably do without.  It doesn't really seem worth all this effort.  I like to keep everything up to date.