Even easier, might be get basically any Windows loaded hard drive, stick it in a USB hard drive case and boot from that (assuming your model allows you to boot from USB hard drives). If it is a notebook harddrive you could even temporarily replace it with the one in your notebook. Even if the hardware such as video is substantially different you should at least be able to get it to boot into "safe mode." (Ugly I know).
Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Clarke Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 5:19 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how? On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:53:04PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote: > I'll see if I can get answer internally. Thanks Martin. I'm a little annoyed that when my laptop died & the motherboard was replaced under warranty, the replacement had a very old BIOS, and they didn't set the model and serial numbers. > An alternative might be to see if you can hold of one of the Windows > PE or similar bootable CDs. I didn't know such a thing existed. I gave up on Windows years ago :-) We do use it at work though, so I'll see what I can do. Thanks, John -- If you want to watch [a hard drive] die a slow agonizing death, whilst incoveniencing the maximum number of your lusers, install it in the part of your news spool that handles alt.sex.* -- Brian Kantor -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
