Extract system BIOS - USB recovery

[AlkaSeltzerPLUS]

Hi aLL!

 System powering up, 2 led blinking, no screen.

 No HDD in the cage in order to get the BIOS ROM file to recover with an USB stick.

  The only files provided by HP in the drivers section are the classical exes containing the tool which flahes within Windows the *.FD which, extracted with 7-zip, does not provide any BIN (at least I have not noticed their presence ^_^).

 So: how to provide the BIN file in order to do the magic with WIN+B ?

 Thanks in advance, regards.

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

The Win  + B you refer to normally takes a backup fron the HDD, which you dont have?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833

HP Pavilion dv6-2010sl Entertainment Notebook PC

  So what/which OS are you trying?

What is the ultimate aim?

[AlkaSeltzerPLUS]

Thanks for answering!

 The ultimate aim is to recover the BIOS in order to let the system boot. Secondly I'll buy an SSD and install an OS.

 Win+B tries to recover from USB sticks too: as You gently posted the link refers to recovery via USB stick too ( point n.°2 ) in fact i tried with the Crysis Recovery Mode: the system started beeping for a minute, reading from the stick, but after the reboot it went to the land of nowhere as before.

 In the drivers section there is also the possibility to download an application which would create an USB recovery stick but only under Windows 7 so I had to build a Virtual Machine but, uh, the exe looks for an EFI partition which does not exist and even if it should I suppose that the program searches for the BIOS backup file inside there..

 Any other ideas?

 Thanks

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Since you have files then maybe a w8 or w10 and try the exe files in dos.

W7 does not sit happily with USB, hence the W8/10 option. 

A command line is a command line is a comma....

[AlkaSeltzerPLUS]

Thanks for answering again!

 Sorry Sir, but the exe stops beacuse it looks to the system partition where the BIOS backup files are stored, but not having the original hdd I am unable to let it find them.

 Maybe the point should be how to get the right structure (and files) on the USB stick in order to let the system start flashing again ?_?

 Regards

[AlkaSeltzerPLUS]

Bump! (1x24h does fit the rules, right?) 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Nothing new.

 There are DOS based BIOS flashers I'm sure that would run from the W8 USB.

I would just buy and install a HDD, but you seem determined to do things the hard way.

Bye.

[AlkaSeltzerPLUS]

Ok let's wait for the docking station: stay tuned!

Thanks for Your postings.

Greetings from the Dolomities