New Lite-ON Windows flasher can also make backups, region code changes

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to dhc014:

All Lite-ON drives except the LTD-163 and their
CD-ROM drives have a certain amount of the flash ROM set aside for the
Boot Code. For the recent 6S and 7S drives (as well as most others) the
whole flash chip holds 512KB. Of that size 16KB is set aside and is
usually not flashed by the Lite-ON Windows Flashers. If something goes
wrong while flashing, the Boot Code area maintains the minimum functions
of the drive so that it can still be detected by BIOS and Windows and you
can flash again to recover it. If you choose to flash the Boot Code area
and something goes wrong, then the drive may not be detected and you’ll
need to use mtkflash in DOS which can reflash the entire ROM including the
Boot Code to recover the drive. Sometimes the Boot Code does need to be
updated and if that’s the case, then Lite-ON will set the Windows Updater
to flash the Boot Code.

Basically, not flashing the Boot Code is a
fail-safe so that a drive can be recovered more easily if something goes
wrong.