Hi saratogacoach, (1) Should I update the BIOS to A10 before or after creating the recovery disks?  You may do it either ways.  (2) Also, should I apply any other Windows updates before or after creating the recovery disks (some postings on this forum say that they were unable to create the recovery disks until after they applied updates, including updating the Dell recovery utility.)  You may install Windows updates and updates of applications like Dell Back up and Recovery. Once done, may create a recovery media for your computer.  Please reply in case you have any further questions. 
Hi, With a new XPS One 27 (Win 8 Pro, with 32GB SSD as additional cache) on the way, I've been reading about the difficulties faced by others when alerted by auto-update to update their BIOS. see especially: [URL]#20228940 (and, [URL] and, [URL] It appears that the latest BIOS updates (09, 10) detect the previous BIOS settings and save these during updating? Does this mean that if alerted to update, and BIOS update 10 is used (hopefully compatible with the tag) that it should successfully save old setting (RAID?) and update OK? If not, is there a safe and successful way to update the BIOS on this computer, if the alert to update displays? What does Dell support recommend? Any suggestions appreciated. saratogacoach
XPS One 27 BIOS Updating