HUH? I thought that the firmware was on a ROM inside the computer itself and not on any hard drive. So, one ought to be able to upgrade the firmware right away. Or, am I mistaken? Thanks, --Steve At 12:18 PM -0800 1/16/07, Ronald Steinke wrote: >If you need to upgrade the firmware, you can only do it on a drive that has a valid operating system already installed on it. Therefore, you have to install and format the new drive and put a valid OS on it before you can upgrade it to a newer version of the OS.