Help with ide drive?

how do i do this i dont understand it??? http://support.dell.com/support/download...

Help with ide drive?
Instructions For Bootable Diskette:





1. Click on (BR64013.EXE). This will begin the diskette creation process.


2. Follow the instructions provided.


3. Insert a blank diskette when requested.


4. Once the diskette creation is complete, restart your system with the diskette inserted.


5. You must choose "I AGREE" to continue.


6. The utility will identify your hard drive (IC35LxxxAVVA07) and proceed to update.


(The utility will NOT flash an unsupported model. It will exit back to the A:\%26gt;)


7. The utility will return you to an "A:\%26gt;" when complete.


8. Remove the diskette and restart your system.





Alternative Flash process (no floppy available)





(PLEASE DO NOT POWER OFF THE SYSTEM WHILE UPDATING YOUR HARD DRIVE)





1. The files contained in (R64013.EXE) should be extracted to bootable media. (ie. Floppy, CD, Zip drive, USB Flash Memory). The default extraction directory is C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R64013.


2. Once the files are extracted, copy the contents of R64013 directory to bootable source.


3. Boot to that source.


4. The utility will identify your hard drive (IC35LxxxAVVA07) and proceed to update.


(The utility will NOT flash an unsupported model. It will exit back to the prompt executed from)


5. The utility will exit and return back to the prompt it was executed from when complete.


6. Remove the diskette and restart your system.











Important Information





PLEASE DO NOT POWER OFF DURING UPDATE. ALLOW THE UPDATE TO COMPLETE BEFORE RETURNING TO NORMAL OPERATION.
Reply:To do a firmware update, you can NOT be in Windows. That is what the purpose of loading the firmware on a floppy disk, so that you can boot up the computer off the floppy and NOT the hard drive (with windows).





Follow the instructions to load the firmware update onto a floppy disk. When you insert the floppy disk in your computer and reboot it, the computer should read the floppy and start up the firmware update utility, and NOT boot up into Windows.





If your computer does not boot up on the floppy, then go into your Cmos settings (I think its F12 on a Dell but maybe F2 key, as soon as you turn it on). Look for something regarding bootup sequence. It should bootup in this order: Floppy, CD, Hard Drive).
Reply:Just so you understand, this is a firmware update - this is the software that actually runs a piece of hardware such as a hard drive - apparently there is a potential problem which could be solved by installing this firmware update. The update is a program file that must first be installed onto a floppy disk that is formatted as a bootable disk. This way after the update program is copied to the floppy disk, you can insert the floppy disk into your computer, restart the computer and the computer will boot from the floppy disk instead of from your hard drive. So, first you have to make sure you even have a floppy disk drive (some newer computers don't), then you need to make a bootable floppy disk (do a search online to find out how), and then once you have this floppy disk ready the rest of the instructions should make sense.
Reply:follow the directions at the bottom of the page