Bricked my BIOS on HP Pavilion dv6 1215ee

[rohit_devil007]

Hi,

After I had installed windows 8 [from windows 7 pro] on my HP Pavilion dv6 1215ee, I was trying to merge the 100 mb that is present in the hard disk (for the bios) to my 500 gb. Now my system keeps restarting again and again saying that an error occurred. I am complete noob to this. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Rohit

[donovan6000]

@rohit_devil007 You just have to reinstall Windows. Messing around with your HDD's partitions wont ever brick your bios

So HP computers starts off with a recovery partition, a Windows partition, and an HP_TOOLS partition. None of them are responsible to your computer's boot process. I personally delete all of them as soon as I get a new computer, then I repartition my HDD to better fit my needs.

The error your getting is from Windows. So you just have to fix Windows. There's a million ways to do this. Since you seem new to all this, I'd recommend restoring your computer to factory conditions using HP's recovery partition. To do this, start up your computer and press ESC at the bios splash screen to open the ESC menu. From here press the key that corresponds to system recovery. It'll pretty much take care of the rest. This will put your computer back to it's original state when you bought it, so you'll have to put Windows 8 back on there.

[rohit_devil007]

@donovan6000 I have already tried that countless times, its just goes to back to error over and over again and restarts. Its not letting me access my hard disk at all. Please help

[donovan6000]

When does it give the error? Are you sure its the bios giving the error and not Windows?

You can try doing a bios recovery. Download this and run it. Install it to a FAT32 USB flashdrive and make sure its named HP_TOOLS when the tool is finished:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softw...6&sw_lang=


Then put this file onto the flash drive in Hewlett-Packard | BIOS | Current

http://www.mediafire.com/?9hq5ajzjb8n4vky

Now shutdown your computer completely. With the flash drive plugged in, hold down the two keys WIN+b on the keyboard and start up your computer. Continue holding them down until a recovery windows appears. This will automatically flash your bios. But since you didn't flash them in the first place I don't think this will fix it.

Can you access the boot manager? Insert a bootable disk/flash drive. Press ESC on the bios splash screen then select Boot Manager. Now try booting to the bootable media. If it works then it's a problem with windows, not your bios.