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yer maybe,my hard drive is 250GB but when its fully formated it still only shows 233GB max, and theres no hidden restore partiton on it e.t.c, and i would like to upgrade my BIOS for the sake of it,and i upgraded from vista to windows 7 so figured it would be a good thing to do re-gaurdless if im having a problem.
Dude, point is since the .wph/.rom/.fd file is not available, the bios cannot be flashed from a usb stick and since the .exe is not working in win7, you're kinda stuck. So either revert to XP, then try flashing. Or, if not possible, go through the update changelog to know exactly what it brings to the table- if its not substantial, just stick to your current bios.
Edit: 250 gb is in decimal system (thats what manufacturers use) and 233 gb is the SAME thing in binary (that the OS understands). Theres NO discrepancy.
Updating the bios is not going to magically create a recovery partition. If your machine came with one you probably deleted it on the way, in any case once you change the OS, whats the big deal about the previous OS?
Majestick,
What is the name of the .exe file for updating the bios.
My efforts also produced a file form 2008.
v1.35 1.0 MB 2008/12/08
Website: Acer Support - Drivers & Download
The zip file has contents of:
yer i thort ild try flash it from a usb any way,was worth a shot,im not going to stick XP on cant be botherd,yer i know all about binary and decimal,so can i still hold 250GB of info then? and there is no update change log i dont think.umm yer i know updating the bios wont magicly make a recovery partition,i never hoped it would? i do hope i have deleted it if there was one so ive got more space,whats the big deal about vista do u mean? i dont know i brought this laptop 2nd hand i didnt even use vista just put on 7 stright away.
i wouldnt mind updating BIOS so i can use bit-locker aswell
Well, I doubt its your BIOS that is preventing you from using BitLocker, just understand that flashing your BIOS incorrectly will turn your computer into a paperweight... Good Luck...