*UPDATE* Firmware 1.2.5 for EOS 7D

[photophreek]

Is the FIR file on your hard drive in your computer? Is there a cf card in your camera? You should be able then to copy the FIR file from your computer to the cf card in the camera and then update the firmware version. The installation instructions explain how to do this very well.

 

[PeterJ]

I always have an issue under Windows 7 x64 trying to do this where I can copy/delete from the DCIM directory but get a permission denied error trying to put anything in the root directory. I'm pretty familiar with Windows permissions and I've tried running explorer under administrator and can't get access to the permissions for the device. I've got 64-bit Windows loaded, Lightroom and the Canon utilities loaded so maybe one of those is doing something funky.

Anyway I didn't find a solution to it other than using a card reader.

 

[foobar]

IIRC, there is a way to use EOS Utility for copying the firmware image to the camera. It should be described on Canon's firmware download page.

If that doesn't work, try using a CF card reader for copying the firmware file to the card. The camera itself doesn't support mass storage protocol, meaning that the USB connection can only be used to transfer image files (PTP protocol).

The contents of the card have no permission management since the cards are formatted with FAT32.