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‎06-27-2023 11:52 AM

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Product: HP EliteBook 840 G3

If you have just bought a new-old HP laptop without the original HDD/SSD, you might not be able to update the BIOS. I figured out how to update BIOS in this situation.

1. Download the required BIOS.

2. Create a 'Hewlett-Packard\BIOS\New' folder tree on the USB pendrive 

3. Put the BIOS file called N75_xxxx.bin to the New folder.

4. Create a HP_TOOLS partition on a HDD/SSD installed on the notebook

5. You can also create 'Hewlett-Packard\BIOS\New' folder tree on this partition for future reference.

6. Enter BIOS/UEFI and start the update process.

HP tools are using the HDD partition named HP_TOOLS (around 2GB) to update the BIOS.

  • without this partition, the BIOS will NOT update at all
  • add to your partitioning task the following partition
  • no need to assign a letter for that drive, but the name is important
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