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It's fairly likely that the hard drive can be flashed from within the OS without any problems. The most likely reason for Seagate's actions is a good, old fashi
by Sanddancer 12y ago
It's fairly likely that the hard drive can be flashed from within the OS without any problems. The most likely reason for Seagate's actions is a good, old fashioned, case of CYA. By making you use a boot disk, you're getting rid of a lot of other factors, like buggy drivers for other components, etc, that could cause a system to hang mid-flash and brick the hard drive.
- cnvogel 12y agoAlso probably they don't see enough demand for people being able to effortlessly reflash/reprogram their harddisks to invest the necessary R&D to make it work seamlessly. There are hundreds of tricks to make flashing more reliable and unsusceptible to data corruption, but it's cheaper to just use a DOS tool and write "DO NOT TURN OFF OR RESET YOUR COMPUTER!" on the screen.
- chinathrow 12y agoAnd not to forget that you get rid of all the folks who don't know what they do. No support calls. No complains.