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    Howt recover from my bad thinkpad T61 bios?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by moreal, Aug 21, 2008.

  1. moreal

    moreal Newbie

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    So unlucky of me it hasnot even been a week since i bought my Thinkpad T61 laptop that i damaged the bios.

    Can Someone please name the files one by one in a bootable crysis recovery disk by which one managed to do the bios recovery.Because the thinkpad T61 bios file size is 4M Bits,It can not use the USB floppy drive.

    Files i have been using are

    minidos.sys
    bios.wph (replaced by the bios file downloaded from my backup bios file)
    phlash16.exe

    When i insert a cd with all those files in the laptop and start my laptop my dvd rom start to blink light(i think that means laptop is trying to boot from the dvd rom) and then the voice of the rotating disc comes for few seconds and then stops .This happens again after every 1 or 2 mins so i think there is something wrong.

    I follow the steps

    Hope this would help me a lot

    Also if someone who has done a successful recovery throught a CD or DVD or a USB Flash Drive tell me the way to do it through a cd or a usb drive i will b most grateful.please indicate the extra files i need to do a recovery through a Cd, dvd or a usb flash disk

    Thank you in advance.
     
  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    If your screen is totally blank then...
    G-G-G-GAME OVER MAN.

    Working BIOS is necessary in order to boot from CD.