![]() ![]() Option 1: Find Another Way to Install the Firmware Update I strongly recommend you research all of these options before proceeding. ![]() Three possibilities occur to me, although one violates the details of what you're asking to do but not the spirit, and I can make no promises that any of these approaches would work. Select custom, delete the existing FreeDos partition, and install Windows on the blank space. Start machine - boots from disk-on-key into Windows installation.Note that I tried to set boot to UEFI-only, but then it wouldn't recognize the disk-on-key.Now disk-on-key is selectable - set it as first boot device. Enter machine BIOS ( Fn+ F2), set boot to legacy support (may have been the default, don't remember), restart and enter BIOS again.Download a Windows 10 64-bit ISO, and create a USB disk-on-key using Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.Question: Is there a way to update the BIOS without re-formatting the drive to GPT? Installation procedure However, this means that I need to delete the entire partition, which I don't want to. This thread suggests it's because I partitioned the drive with MBR, and says that he managed to update the BIOS after re-installing windows using an installation Disk-on-Key creating with stick using Rufus with GPT-type UEFI. I then wanted to update its BIOS/UEFI from the factory 2.00 to 2.02 from the above link, but this failed with: I clean-installed Windows 10 v1703 on it (installation details below). I just bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad 510S-14IKB 80UV without OS. ![]()
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