I've been working hard on trying to resolve the issue of overcoming the problems created by advancing PhatHack Media Manager well beyond the scope of the DMS tools ... and the problem of the DMS tools not being usable when having PhatHack Media Manager installed.
I'll be looking to address any other issues people might have found (if I can get a list of them together).
One of the issues I have addressed, which I myself suffered from today, is the random 'Failed to format partitions' when correct information is passed across to mkdosfs.
Turns out this was caused by 'process code' specifying an EXE name for the target application ... and as it has worked in the past, I've added a second attempt at these calls to format the partitions, with the second attempt removing the extension.
I've also added an extra field on the screen, with relevant code, to determine what the previous version of firmware is installed onto a DMS (with auto-selection of that same firmware when switching to DMS Tools mode).
I have yet to validate the results of the latest DMS tools (signature generation, and the hack need testing) but hope to complete this in the next few days.
I have a certain box that needs hacking, so it gets to be the guinea pig for this latest version.
If anyone else is interested in testing this latest version please let me know, and I'll arrange some binaries.
If I can, I will also try and resolve the Vista/Win7 execution level issue too...