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.
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.
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.
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.