See, I'm not sure how "official" this software from DVDFab really is.
In fact, as I understand it, the major problem with it is that it overwrites the drive's entire firmware which is dangerous and can lead to issues.
The new flash method was developed to use a true official flasher and as such does a firmware change exactly as the manufacturer intends them to be done.
Is DVDFab's tool safe and official?
Not sure - probably not - don't (necessarily) believe the hype.
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Testiles if you really decided to want to dump your unit's firmware in some time, you never know why. Just wait for the next Windows 10 release in spring, when perhaps downloading a new 64Bit+32 Bit Win10 installation image (ISO) with the next release or some time later.
Just buy an empty USB-flash drive, max. 32GByte.
(Got a 32 GByte solid Transcend Flash Drive even for 8.99€ from Conrad seller, who is total expensive with other products. Pretty fast flash drive.
Partition the USB flash drive Primary, starting at sector 2048 and format it with "FAT32".
Extract the WInPE-ISO's content with "virtual-drive" onto the flash drive. You can use even use Windows 8 or Win10 built in Virtual drive in Windows explorer. ISO right klick ->"Bereitstellen" (->"Mount") copy to USB-Pen-drive-Win-installer-FAT32 partition or with e.g. 7-Zip.
In Windows (also works from another WinPE of course) open CMD-box, type in:
bootsect /nt60 G:
replace G: with corresponding drive-letter of your USB flash drive. with the instllation files:
This installs Bootcode-Sector into the Win10-partition on flash drive, for BIOS-Boot.
(This makes the Windows-install-files-partition bootable for a Bootmanager.)
If you want bootability without installing Bootmanager on USB-falsh drive, type in:
bootsect /nt60 G:
bootsect /nt60 G: /force /MBR
(replace G: with corresponding drive-letter of your USB flash drive.)
(You possibly need to extract "Bootsect" -program from install.esd / install.wim. Z-Zip allows to open install.esd and install.wim files.
[Edit]bootsect appears already included here in Win8.1 Installation in C:\Windows\System32\bootsect.exe
Boot that Windows-Installation-media (Windows-Pre-Installation-Environment). And press SHIFT+F10 to open cmd box. (easiest to copy Dosflash_20 to Win-installflash-drive in a temp-folder).
Just type:
C:
D:
until it lists USB-installation-files with tempfolder and Dosflash_2.0
Navigate to Dosflash 2.0 directory.
Then Type:
DosFlash32_BH16NS40.exe
The "Read"-tab should be preselected (if not already)
Creating WinPE working even without Rufus. For UEFI-Boot, there's nothing more to do than the iso-file extraction, as the WINPE-ISO's directory and file structure content is identical with USB-Flash-Install-image creation methode, bootx64.efi etc. The MediaCreation Tool for example just adds that bootcode (first "hidden" Filesystem-Boot-sector) when using installation-usb-flash-drive method.
I can confirm Dosflash 2.0 and Windows-Pre-Installation-Environment works perfectly dumping firmware (in IDE mode). It appears safer than with Dosflash_1.7