Yup. I tried that already.
HOWEVER, I just got a tip from someone who said he had to close all apps.
I had actually already closed all open apps and disabled my anti-virus
and firewall software.
I decided to close down a few things in Task Manager (iTouch.exe, emexec.exe, winscheduler.exe; I left the other 40 odd processes running -I have Win XP Pro, and I didn't want to close processes down, unless I was sure what they were for and whether they would be safe to kill).
emexec and iTouch are mouse and keyboard-related stuff.
Now it is giving me the option to flash the drive, without asking me to restart first
FINALLY!
I'll post my results.
EDIT:
Killing 3 or 4 processes (out of about 40) did the trick. Everything went smoothly after that. I now have 1.0f
Like with 1.0d, I did NOT have to disable DMA.
Word of warning for the impatient out there:
The progress bar update code isn't too great - It may seem like it is hanging (when the progress bar stays at the same % complete for a while); just give it a minute or so. Then the bar jumps to 100% all of a sudden.
