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‎10-21-2024 01:20 PM

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Product: HP Z440 Base Model Workstation

I have been unable to boot after changing the CMOS battery. As I have now gathered that changing the battery resets bios to factory settings I am now trying to update bios with a recovery USB. 

Frustratingly, the system cannot find the recovery flash. It seems that the system is searching for a folder on the USB with the pathway Hewlett-Packard\Bios\New, but the recovery USB created from the HP downloads page for my device creates a different set of pathways. There is a folder \Hewlett-Packard and that contains two folders 1. \BIOS which contains three more folders \New (empty), \Current (contains a file \M60_261_BIN) and \Previous (empty). 

and 2. \BiosUpdate (empty). 

 

Which, if any of these is the correct recovery folder and how do I get my PC to find it? 

 

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