Reflashing BIOS.

Thu Dec 18 06:54:09 MST 2014

I would try a low level format from the Drive manufacturers tools. i have
seen drive wiping processes leave the drive in a unuseable format before.
and there are littel bits that should be cleared and reset from those
tools. however this is going with the promise that you have given up on
your data and its all gone.

Also take a look at a new drive to have a temp OS on it, and take a look at
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk that has been the best recovery
tool i have used to date for data recovery. mind you you will need lots of
space because it will try to suck everything off the drive into a location
on another drive.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I did not say explicitly, but it is my opinion that you do not need to,
> and should not flash the BIOS as the BIOS is booting.
>
> Yes, per Wikipedia, as I understand it, part of the EFI is on the hard
> drive, I assume that if the ROM BIOS is looking for that  portion it will
> go weird, as in hanging or something equally exciting.
>
> Please consult others for verification.
>
>
>
> On 12/17/2014 07:10 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>
> My drive is plugged in and yes I can boot into a live CD.  For a while it
> allowed me to fix the grub bootloader.  Not it says it found a GPT
> partition but nothing is on there but the OS.  And when I try to format a
> bios_boot partition.  It just throws up more errors.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?
>>
>> In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>
>> Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does.  As for trying
>> to open an EFI shell, thats not happening.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington <
>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
>>>  On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
>>>> On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Yes the BIOS does see them both.  The trouble is that it was booting
>>>>> to EFI first now it won't boot to either legacy or EFI.  It just sits there
>>>>> after the setup screen.
>>>>>  Ya thats what I am trying to work with.  I have a copy of WINs7 but
>>>>> it doesn't want to load.  This computer doesn't have a floppy and I don't
>>>>> have access to one at the moment.  So I need to find other solutions.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  2 thoughts,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  1 - Does the bios see the drive physically?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something similar) to run
>>>>>> the executable. or a windows environment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  HP is notoriously horrible about supporting linux on desktop or
>>>>>>> laptop's, so you won't get help there.  They're also quite proprietary acpi
>>>>>>> implementations, so likely still (haven't looked in a while) no one bothers
>>>>>>> to figure out and support them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My first, and subsequently last, hp laptop I kept the original
>>>>>>> windoze disk for this purpose alone, and just loaded new ssd's with linux.
>>>>>>> About 6mo ago I sold to a friend, but flashed the bios from windoze luckily
>>>>>>> having kept it as the only option I could find to get a current bios on
>>>>>>> it.  Install xp long enough on a temp disk to flash it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is why I've usually decried HP to the good folks on this list -
>>>>>>> they're just not linux friendly, and hardly worth a darn for anything but
>>>>>>> servers anymore.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -mb
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I need help again to be able to reflash my BIOS.  The reason is
>>>>>>> that my computer is having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or USBs.  I know
>>>>>>> this is the case with the desktop because it works fine in my laptop.  I
>>>>>>> have tried to reset the BIOS and thought at first to reinstall GRUB.
>>>>>>> Nothing is working but my HDD does show it does have a OS on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  i already downloaded the BIOS version from HP but it is an exe
>>>>>>> file.  Could anyone help me to see how I can fix this problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Stephen Melheim
>>>>>>> 602-400-7707
>>>>>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>>
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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