JoBo1943

Thanks Dennis That's where I down loaded the file from, (the second of the two) many times including using "save as" to put it straight to the usb drv. But they say to just copy the file to the USB drive. I tried that first. Years ago I played a little with Red Hat and worked on small multi user computers with the Zenix version on Altos computers. I remember tar is a archive file and I think I remember gz files are self extracting. But don't recall about a tar gz's file??? I have tried the usr, root and web folders. The file as downloaded and a 7-zip extraction of the downloaded file. Any idea what formatting I should use? I tried fat, fat16 and fat32. I'm retired and have tried just about every combination, I've been on this for a day and a half and am loosing tract Joe UPDATE. I found on the SWANN dvr site to use fat32 with the "fast format" option unchecked for their firmware updates.

Dennis. I've been trying to update the firmware on my zmodo vmd-dd-san8 and following your directions exactly and always get "NO UPDATE SOFTWARE" : I've downloaded the correct file several times. Is the USB thumb drive supposed to be bootable? Mine is not and I go through the SETUP menu >advanced>maintain and I have set to system defaults. I've tried 3 different usb drives and win7 and 8 both 64 bits with the 64 bit verion of 7-zip. I resoldered poor solder joints where the USB plugs attatches to the board and and the activity light on the drive flashes and I have all cameras and mouse unplugged Thanks for any help you can provide Joe

Glad to have found this forum, thank you " title="Applause" /> I have a Zmodo ZMD-DD-SAN8 and am havinf afirmware update problem and will post my problem in the correct forum Joe