You can unplug it from your client machine and plug it in to your Lenovo device. Plug in the drive and set the device to boot to itĪt this point, you should have a bootable USB device that you can now plugin to your Lenovo device. Make sure to Replace the file in the destination as this will execute the command to launch the flash2 utility, which actually writes the firmware to the device.

When you try to copy the files from the firmware directory to the bootable USB drive, you will be prompted to replace AUTOEXEC.BAT. I simply dragged and dropped the files from the firmware directory to the bootable USB drive. To show visually, I opened two file explorer windows, one in the directory of the extracted firmware and the other on the bootable USB drive. Once you have extracted the files from the zipped folder from Lenovo, you will want to copy and paste the files from the extracted directory to the bootable USB drive. Copy the extracted files to your bootable USB drive In this picture, we are selecting the folder to where the extracted files should go. then try downloading a copy of 7-Zip, which is a fantastic free archiver solution that can open all types of compressed files (zip, 7zip, tar.gz, etc) In this picture, we show right clicking the zipped folder and clicking Extract All. Once downloaded, navigate to where you downloaded the zipped file, right click, and select Extract All. You will want a copy of the zipped installer as shown in the screenshot below. Download the right firmware from LenovoĪs mentioned earlier, Lenovo offers 3 different types of downloads on their website. This is kinda misleading, wish it would say completed, but your device should be flashed at this point. Once completed, you should see a green bar that says READY. Go ahead and click OK if you are sure you have selected the correct device in the prior step. You will be prompted to confirm you are OK with erasing the device. Once your Device and Boot selection has been set, go ahead and click Start to flash the device. Select your USB device you wish to flash (note this will erase all data on your device) and set the Boot selection to FreeDOS. Rufus' website can officially be found here: You can obtain a copy of the utility here. This utility is an open source utility for Windows only, but will allow you to make a bootable USB drive. Make a bootable driveįirst, you will want to download a copy of the Rufus utility. In this case, the instructions below will show you have to make the drive bootable and then launch the USB Flash Package. While the USB Flash Package (.zip) is exactly what we are looking for, by default if you just drag the files onto your USB drive, it won't boot to the flash utility.

CD ISO version (.iso) to burn to a disk.

This tutorial will review how to create a bootable USB drive to flash the fimrware/bios on your Lenovo device.īefore we begin, Lenovo offers three different downloads for Firmware today:

Create bootable usb disk utility