QUOTE(SilentBob1638 @ Apr 8 2011, 06:21 AM)

On #freeboot i was told yesterday that manually editing/writing the flash will corrupt it. It should be reflashed completely instead. Not sure if this is correct.
That's what I did actually. My exact steps were:
1. Build 12625 image with fbbuild (first I manually extracted the resources from the dash launch default.xex and transferred the patches to the correct places) .
2. flashed image.
3. realized the official 12625 update would not install no matter what settings I had in the ini or what i named the update folder.
4. Thought to myself, maybe something is wrong with dash launch, so i deleted the ihelper/launch files from the flash using fsd.
5. Ran the update successfully.
6. reflashed the original image from step 1.