Won’t work if you need to update something like dell hardware firmware. DUP wont run in a pe environment. Of course you can extract the files but that doesn’t always work. Sometimes you have to boot windows if the manufacturer doesn’t bother to make a linux version for a desktop like they do for all their servers.
is there a free way to set that up? I’ve literally just been moving an internal drive between computers and using a linux live to add it to the boot with efibootmgr if it has one of those early half uefi mobos
Hirens Boot CD might have sufficient utilities to perform a bios update? I’ve not tried because I usually don’t bother updating the BIOS unless there’s an actual problem I’m hoping to fix
Just use a win pe boot environment.
Won’t work if you need to update something like dell hardware firmware. DUP wont run in a pe environment. Of course you can extract the files but that doesn’t always work. Sometimes you have to boot windows if the manufacturer doesn’t bother to make a linux version for a desktop like they do for all their servers.
Dell has their own instructions on making a bootable usb for bios updates:
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000145519/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-using-dell-diagnostic-deployment-package-dddp
Do it the hard way or the easy way. Oh and good luck with a drive update.
is there a free way to set that up? I’ve literally just been moving an internal drive between computers and using a linux live to add it to the boot with efibootmgr if it has one of those early half uefi mobos
Hirens Boot CD might have sufficient utilities to perform a bios update? I’ve not tried because I usually don’t bother updating the BIOS unless there’s an actual problem I’m hoping to fix
I think it’s part of the windows sdk but yeah it’s free.