The area I'm in is still 100% conventional High Band VHF and UHF so I've had no need to update my 396XT from the 1.08.14 firmware up to the 1.10.00 version. But over the next few months I'll be visiting places with P25's that the update will help out. I figured I'll make it my project for this weekend to get done and mess around with it so I know what I'm doing when I get to the hotel and power up the scanner.
My issue is since I'm a Mac guy I'm completely Windows stupid with my PC laptop I'd be doing the update on so I was thinking about downloading FreeSCAN first to make sure I have a backup of all my settings and programming in case something happens with the firmware update. From looking at it if I follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Freescan_downloads
and do the CTRL-D and make sure step 2 is done can I then save and create the backup of everything I have in there or is there a different/better way to save everything in there as a backup in case my being Windows clueless erases everything?
My issue is since I'm a Mac guy I'm completely Windows stupid with my PC laptop I'd be doing the update on so I was thinking about downloading FreeSCAN first to make sure I have a backup of all my settings and programming in case something happens with the firmware update. From looking at it if I follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Freescan_downloads
and do the CTRL-D and make sure step 2 is done can I then save and create the backup of everything I have in there or is there a different/better way to save everything in there as a backup in case my being Windows clueless erases everything?