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Re: Ping: Paul

From David <David@example.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Ping: Paul
Date 2025-01-08 23:32 +0000
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On 08/01/2025 17:02, Mike Easter wrote:
> BDB wrote:
>> Sadly, it didn't work. :-(
> 
> Let's try the BIOS-based procedure.
> 
>> You can use Hirens to run the exe, or you can use your Dell's bios 
>> system to do it. 
> 
> But again; and especially for this rather tiny file, you should do a 
> hashcheck on the file before proceeding.
> 
> Remember how to do that booting into the Dell MX?  Using your fm 
> navigate to the dir w/ the target file and select it, then R click for 
> the context menu and then Properties/ Checksums
> 
> It will auto start calculating the 3 defaults that it is configured for 
> md5, sha1, sha256; you only need to compare one of them to their values 
> from Dell:
> 
> MD5:
> 7d7b2096be4826fe077ad5b48189e635
> SHA1:
> 1be5c78682e45730c52fa1c13ed4776fbc0bf3d9
> SHA-256:
> f3f12e3b056d244744a05ce7b63c6552aac42e6d825386287c28e4428b7d61fb
> 
> You don't want anything corrupting to go on in a firmware update.  I 
> don't know what happened w/ the Hiren's operation.
> 
> After you've confirmed that the hash is OK for the .exe you use the 
> system's bios:
> 
> https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails? 
> driverid=5frrw&oscode=wt64a&productcode=inspiron-13-5368-2-in-1-laptop
> 
>   3. Power on the system.
>   4. At the DELL logo screen, press F12 to access the one-time boot menu.
>   5. Select BIOS Flash Update in the Other Options section.
>   6. Click the ... button to browse the USB drive to locate the 
> downloaded file.
>   7. Select the file and click OK.
>   8. Verify the existing system BIOS information and the BIOS update 
> information.
>   9. Click Begin Flash Update.
>   10. Review the Warning message and click Yes to proceed with the update.
> The system restarts and displays a Flash Progress bar at the Dell logo 
> screen. The system restarts again when the Flash update is complete.
> 
> I have a question about why you are considering installing W10.  If the 
> only reason is that you think it is possible that a W10 will work the 
> speakers when the W11 did not, there is a Hirens W10 PE in its archives 
> (before the W11 PE).  If you want the machine to be running a Windows as 
> its OS whether the built-in speakers work or not, that is another angle.
> 
> I've been able to boot the MS W10 installer .iso from both a Ventoy and 
> also from a Rufus written USB w/o having to use the MS media creator.

I've messed about for much of the day and got nowhere, Mike. :-(

Thanks for all your efforts to help me.

Can you give me a link to make a Hiren's boot disk so that I can
completely wipe all data from the Dell Laptop's hard drive?

I'll start over tomorrow!

-- 
Kind regards,
David

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