How to upgrade MultiRecorder firmware without a floppy drive

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How to upgrade the MultiRecorder firmware.

You need a USB stick which can be made bootable, and you must enable boot from USB devices in the bios.

Making your USB stick bootable:
Download this tool from HP http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files ... 20306.html

Download dos files from:
http://www.aaltonen.us/mirror1/HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip

Then format your stick with, pointing “Create a DOS startup disk” to the location of the unzipped BootFiles. You will understand when you start the HP program.

Download the latest firmware from IBM.
The program requires a floppy disk so make one on a PC with a floppy drive.
Create a folder on your USB stick and copy the floppy files into this folder.

Then restart booting from the USB stick.

Enter the folder which you created.

Then start the LDR_BZ01.EXE program and watch while your drive gets its new firmware.

Regards

Even

[juancferrer]

I still can't believe that we have to use a floppy for ANYTHING!! these days. Even with this workaround, one still needs access to a floppy drive. Manufacturers and companies need to realize that they floppy is dead!!, it's been dead for years!!