- #Save bios settings to usb how to
- #Save bios settings to usb install
- #Save bios settings to usb drivers
- #Save bios settings to usb update
I would probably just boot a live stick and install ubuntu over the internet. You would need to use DISM if you want windows install files over 4gb on the primary partition by spanning them - I think the original post was about Linux or something. When partitioning you can probably mark the system partition as fat32 and then just save your images or whatever to another partition.
After marking the partition as active and copying the files back down (Files over 4gb need to be spanned or enumerated on a separate partition) it worked as it used to. This was on a stick that was created by acronis imaging - I made a backup of the stick, then used diskpart to clean, partition, and format with fat32. Like I said - used to work and now suddenly doesn't after firmware updates but still works on other systems.
#Save bios settings to usb update
I think the update made a change so that it requires you to use fat32 so that it can read the efi - if the partition where the efi is located is on gpt it's not reading like it used to. I finally got it to save settings of my current oc profile.In the box where I was typing a name of the oc profile I just typed in the number 1 and it saved the profile to a 1setting.txt file.Is this my profile that I can load to the bios or just a text file with my settings on it. These enumerate with "PMAP" when you do an f12 at boot. I should have elaborated more - It is possible to have a bootable UEFI stick with GPT - but I'm having problems with Dell's that have received recent BIOS updates listing the file system. But you can re-enable Secure Boot after you've installed whatever OS you're installing.
The only catch is that you have to disable Secure Boot because the bootloader for the NTFS driver is provided under an open source license and Microsoft therefore won't sign the bootloader so that it's trusted under Secure Boot. That way, when I boot the system in UEFI mode, it initially boots from the FAT partition, loads the UEFI NTFS driver, and then turns around and boots from whatever is on the NTFS partition. If I have a WIM that's larger than 4GB, I use Rufus to create a specially prepared flash drive that uses an NTFS partition for the main data but also contains a small FAT partition that stores a UEFI NTFS driver.
#Save bios settings to usb how to
Spanning WIMs can be a problem because the Windows Setup interface won't allow you to select images that reside in a spanned WIM, so if you use a spanned WIM you'd need to apply the image to the disk manually using a tool like DISM - but most people don't know how to do that. It also supports booting from MBR-initialized devices for backward compatibility, but it's fine with GPT. I do it all the time, and in fact UEFI is explicitly intended to boot from GPT devices. And you can absolutely use a GPT-initialized disk to boot in UEFI mode from USB devices.
#Save bios settings to usb drivers
Latest versions can be found on the Dell Support site under the Drivers and Downloads section for your system.GPT is a partition layout scheme for the entire disk (the other option is MBR), whereas FAT32 is a file system for a partition (other options include NTFS, exFAT, etc.) You can have a GPT flash drive that uses a FAT32 partition or an MBR flash drive that uses a FAT32 partition. Dell will offer BIOS versions for systems with this technology and we recommend maintaining your system with up to date BIOS versions as good practice. The aim is to improve the display of the installed technology and limit any confusion. (Figure 4: Under System Configuration section you can find settings for Thunderbolt Adapter Configuration) (Figure 3: Under System Configuration section you can find settings for Dell Type-C Dock Configuration) (Figure 2: Under System Configuration section you can find settings for USB Configuration) However the layout/display of this was somehow confusing as features which were "not installed" were still visible but greyed out (per the image below).įollowing the release of newer BIOS versions, like the example below from the new Precision 5520 with latest BIOS 1.1.3, this changes into separate BIOS entries. Newer Dell Notebooks equipped with USB-C or Thunderbolt controllers allows the configuration of those technologies in the BIOS under a single entry. This article provides information on changes to the display of USB and Thunderbolt settings on newer BIOS versions.