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Timothy R.Harris Jr.
I received an alert from Dell through their SupportAssist program that a firmware update is available for my SSD hard drive. The pre-installation notice gave the advisement that I should back up my hard drive before proceeding with the update; I've made a system image to an external hard drive, but I was wondering:
1)If the firmware update goes badly and I end up needing a new hard drive (the laptop's currently under a hardware warranty), if Dell re-installs the OS, do I also need a recovery drive in order to replace the stock Dell-edition of Windows 10 with my system image (which includes my installed programs?
2)Also, if at some point I ever need to install the image on a blank drive, since this was an image for the current drive with its current firmware, does a system image contain information for the current hard drive's firmware? If the update is successful, but at some point I end up needing to reinstall the image, will there be some sort of "mismatch" between the hard drive's actual firmware version and the system image's record of the older version's info?
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1)If the firmware update goes badly and I end up needing a new hard drive (the laptop's currently under a hardware warranty), if Dell re-installs the OS, do I also need a recovery drive in order to replace the stock Dell-edition of Windows 10 with my system image (which includes my installed programs?
2)Also, if at some point I ever need to install the image on a blank drive, since this was an image for the current drive with its current firmware, does a system image contain information for the current hard drive's firmware? If the update is successful, but at some point I end up needing to reinstall the image, will there be some sort of "mismatch" between the hard drive's actual firmware version and the system image's record of the older version's info?
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