<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Also take a look at a new drive to have a temp OS on it, and take a look at <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a> 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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:44 PM, koder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Please consult others for verification.<span class=""><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/17/2014 07:10 PM, Stephen M
wrote:<br>
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</span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> If you do not have
the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?<br>
<br>
In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or
equivalent?
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive
when my laptop does. As for trying to open an EFI
shell, thats not happening.<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at
11:59 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:
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<p dir="ltr">Nevermind missed that this was
post dban. </p>
<div>
<div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2014
11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Well that's strange.
We're there any recent changes? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17,
2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <<a href="mailto:smelheim85@gmail.com" target="_blank">smelheim85@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>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.<br>
</div>
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.<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed,
Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM,
Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2
thoughts,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">1 - Does
the bios see the drive
physically?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2 - you
will need a boot disk
(freeDOS or something
similar) to run the
executable. or a windows
environment.</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">
<div>
<div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On
Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at
11:19 AM, Michael
Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span>
wrote:
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div>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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
-mb</font></span>
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/17/2014
11:03 AM,
Stephen M
wrote:<br>
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</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
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<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div>
<div>Hi,<br>
<br>
</div>
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.<br>
<br>
</div>
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
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