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    Extracting BIOS on Sandy Bridge laptops

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Khenglish, Jan 16, 2012.

  1. Khenglish

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    Has anyone figured out how to extract the .ROM or .HDR file out of the BIOS executable? The BIOSNAME -writehdrfile in command line no longer works with sandy bridge based laptops. The BIOS .exe no longer recognizes the command.

    I tried using Universal BIOS backup toolkit to pull the BIOS straight off the BIOS chip, but the program seems to return an incomplete BIOS.
     
    Khenglish, Jan 16, 2012
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