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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
(www.theregister.com)
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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