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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
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I use windows like once a year to update some random bios or firmware and it always takes a goddamn long time. I needed to use intel eeupdate to fix wrong checksum on my ghetto cheap intel 10g nic and it took like an hour of update bootloop in my seldom used windows drive. I still have some linux computers using ide drives and its faster to update.
Just use a win pe boot environment.
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
I think it’s part of the windows sdk but yeah it’s free.
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