Problem With Dos!

[jaxx]

im trying to update the firmware for my boost controller but unfortunately, its not very windows friendly!

it involves the use of an SD card that slots into the side, a small 'DD' program and a .img file...

ive got the following instructions....

Copying .IMG File to an SD Card(16mb+) with DD program

1.in Windows…

2.Download the e-01 .IMG file from www.mohdparts.com/emanage

,and save it in your ‘c:\’ drive, Example of an .IMG file is ‘profece01_1.02_1.02.img’

3.Download the program "dd-0.3.zip" from "www.mohdparts.com/emanage“ and unzip it into your ‘c:\’ drive

4.Click Start -> Run and enter: ‘cmd.exe’ and click ok, A black DOS screen will launch.

5.enter: cd c:\

6.enter: dd

7.enter: dd bs=32k of=\\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 if= profece01_1.02_1.02.img –progress

8.You will have to figure which ‘Harddisk~’ you sd card is into.

9.The copying will start and you will notice your card reader flashing,

once done insert the sd card into the e-01, if all done right the card will work.

trying that i get an error that profece01_1.02_1.02.img and –progress are unknown commands...?

have contacted the guy who provides the updates and he said i may have the wrong harddisk number for my SD card slot...

the SD card comes under the I:\ drive when i click it in my card reader and as far as i know i need to change the Harddisk4 part.... but to what? or is it trial and error?

[Johndcfc]

im trying to update the firmware for my boost controller but unfortunately, its not very windows friendly!

it involves the use of an SD card that slots into the side, a small 'DD' program and a .img file...

ive got the following instructions....

Copying .IMG File to an SD Card(16mb+) with DD program

1.in Windows…

2.Download the e-01 .IMG file from www.mohdparts.com/emanage

,and save it in your ‘c:\’ drive, Example of an .IMG file is ‘profece01_1.02_1.02.img’

3.Download the program "dd-0.3.zip" from "www.mohdparts.com/emanage“ and unzip it into your ‘c:\’ drive

4.Click Start -> Run and enter: ‘cmd.exe’ and click ok, A black DOS screen will launch.

5.enter: cd c:\

6.enter: dd

7.enter: dd bs=32k of=\\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 if= profece01_1.02_1.02.img –progress

8.You will have to figure which ‘Harddisk~’ you sd card is into.

9.The copying will start and you will notice your card reader flashing,

once done insert the sd card into the e-01, if all done right the card will work.

trying that i get an error that profece01_1.02_1.02.img and –progress are unknown commands...?

have contacted the guy who provides the updates and he said i may have the wrong harddisk number for my SD card slot...

the SD card comes under the I:\ drive when i click it in my card reader and as far as i know i need to change the Harddisk4 part.... but to what? or is it trial and error?

Assuming you are using XP....

Right-click My Computer on the desktop, click properties

Click on the hardware tab, then on device manager.

A list of devices should come up - expand disk drives.

Your SD card reader should be listed here - mine is called: SMSC 223 U HS/SD/MMC USB Device

Double click on the sd drive a window will come up - choose the volumes tab

Click on populate and the drive number should come up (mine is 4 also)

Hope this helps,

John

[knowlson]

what directorys are on the SD card dude?

[jaxx]

what directorys are on the SD card dude?

none at the mo, its blank

im trying to update the firmware for my boost controller but unfortunately, its not very windows friendly!

it involves the use of an SD card that slots into the side, a small 'DD' program and a .img file...

ive got the following instructions....

Copying .IMG File to an SD Card(16mb+) with DD program

1.in Windows…

2.Download the e-01 .IMG file from www.mohdparts.com/emanage

,and save it in your ‘c:\’ drive, Example of an .IMG file is ‘profece01_1.02_1.02.img’

3.Download the program "dd-0.3.zip" from "www.mohdparts.com/emanage“ and unzip it into your ‘c:\’ drive

4.Click Start -> Run and enter: ‘cmd.exe’ and click ok, A black DOS screen will launch.

5.enter: cd c:\

6.enter: dd

7.enter: dd bs=32k of=\\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 if= profece01_1.02_1.02.img –progress

8.You will have to figure which ‘Harddisk~’ you sd card is into.

9.The copying will start and you will notice your card reader flashing,

once done insert the sd card into the e-01, if all done right the card will work.

trying that i get an error that profece01_1.02_1.02.img and –progress are unknown commands...?

have contacted the guy who provides the updates and he said i may have the wrong harddisk number for my SD card slot...

the SD card comes under the I:\ drive when i click it in my card reader and as far as i know i need to change the Harddisk4 part.... but to what? or is it trial and error?

Assuming you are using XP....

Right-click My Computer on the desktop, click properties

Click on the hardware tab, then on device manager.

A list of devices should come up - expand disk drives.

Your SD card reader should be listed here - mine is called: SMSC 223 U HS/SD/MMC USB Device

Double click on the sd drive a window will come up - choose the volumes tab

Click on populate and the drive number should come up (mine is 4 also)

Hope this helps,

John

cool comes up as disk 4 so thats correct

through limited knowledge i know the commands shown before have spaces where they shouldnt be....

so ive tried making ammends, tells me it cant find the specified file now though?

[Flat Pack]

dd bs=32k of=\\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 if= profece01_1.02_1.02.img –progress

Probably should't have a space after if=

I expect that's whats causing the unknown command error. Make sure you've got the disk number right before you run it for real though, dd is quite low level and I wouldn't be surprised if you could nuke your hard disk if you accidentally pointed it at that.

[jaxx]

done it!

***** its been a long time since i used DOS!

should be

dd bs=32k of=\\?\device\harddisk4\partition0 if=profece01.1.13.1.11.img --progress

its copied across, just gona go an test it

[PaulT]

dd is really a unix program which has been ported to dos. if= is the input file, of= is the output file name. It does a low level byte to byte copy which will erase anything (the boot sector etc.) on the destination device.

The img file is really a complete filesystem and it will overwrite the one on the flash card (or the hard drive if you get it wrong )

When you have finished doing the update, you will need to reformat the card in order to recover all the space, as the filesystem you copied over will almost certainly not use all of it.

Paul.