Anniversary update for HP Spectre x360 13-w001no

Rymdbob · ‎04-03-2017

HI! Why is the anniversary update not clearly stated as supported for the brand new HP Spectre x360 13-w001no? Has anyone forced the update with a satisfactory result?

Guleria_123 · ‎04-03-2017

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New BIOS update for my Kaby Lake Spectre today!. During the installation wizard, I note the option to allow for the creation of a BIOS recovery partition of approximately 8gb. I selected yes for this. After sucessful BIOS update, I open Disk Management and I gained yet another 8gb RAW partition (now I have three). I realize a few things: The BIOS update Wizard is creating the aforementioned RAW partitions, and (sigh) does not remove them after a sucessful update. Maybe the idea is to keep the BIOS recovery partition (it's not named as such, BTW) around in case the sucessful BIOS update results in a malfunctioning computer. In any event, each of the three (two created by earlier BIOS updates, I expect) is to the "right" of my C volume in Disk Management. So, starting with the first RAW partition to the immediate right of C volume, I delete the RAW partition and then extend C volume to the now unallocated page. Repeated for the remaining two RAW partitions. So far, so good. And I recovered 24gb of SSD storage.

Nitin

erico · ‎04-03-2017

Have you tried it?

Did you get an error message when you tried to update it?

I am waiting for my 2017 product loan Spectre 13t to arrive, so I am curious.

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Rymdbob · ‎04-03-2017

No, haven't tried. I'm reluctant since if it fails and the notebook isn't "supported" you're on your own.

erico · ‎04-03-2017

As long as you have

a) used the HP recovery media creator and have a USB recovery flashdrive

b) cloned the disk to an external storage device (i.e. USB hard disk or a NAS)

Where is the risk? I mitigate it.

When updates fail on mine, no worries.

I just boot to the USB flash drive and use system restore to roll back to the checkpoint created before the update took place.

I could always use one of the clones I have of my system disk. I use Paragon Drive Copy 15.

I always have a plan B or even a plan C to fall back to.

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