OK, at least you are not looking at a new MB I am working on the premise that some of the disk has part of the formatting trashed. There are a couple of levels of format; factory, and a user level Wiser heads than mine will have to advise, but I would guess you need a low level of formatting, partitioning and the put a file system on. I am not sure if you can do this through a USB connection. Not part of my skillset. But, if it can't be done thorough USB, most USB drives have a standard drive that you can take out and install in a standard computer and work from there. Operative word, most. How much of the EFI/UEFI code is on the hard drive that was trashed out? I am not sure, but I don't think it all is in BIOS, but this is an HP. 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 > 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 >> > wrote: >> >> Nevermind missed that this was post dban. >> >> On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" >> > wrote: >> >> Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? >> >> On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" >> > 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 >> > >> 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 >> > >> 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@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your >> mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail >> settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail >> settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss