O.k here's what happened...
Knowing that Microsoft will no longer be supporting windows 7 next year I wanted to duel boot my laptop running win10 & Linux mint.
I installed win10 but wasn't happy with the install so went ahead for a reinstall, somewhere along the way I accidentally wiped a partion which must have held BIOS info like s/n, p/n, uuid, etc.
Now when I boot it tells me it's in a non commited state, I tried to rebuild the partition via cmd & no luck, I realise that it needs rebranding & I have HP DMI software But to make matters worse there is no physical info on the laptop such as serial no, model no etc.
I'm at a dead end and dont want to make matters worse by attempting things that are going to dig my hole deeper so have turned to the forums, I consider myself a basic user this is my first ever post and Im out of my depth.
The install was a UEFI Win10 on GPT formatted partition from usb.
My laptop is an old but stable HP Elitebook 8540p.
i5
2.53GHz
8 GB ram
BIOS Revision 68CVD Ver. F.60
Thanks in advance for any help.
Knowing that Microsoft will no longer be supporting windows 7 next year I wanted to duel boot my laptop running win10 & Linux mint.
I installed win10 but wasn't happy with the install so went ahead for a reinstall, somewhere along the way I accidentally wiped a partion which must have held BIOS info like s/n, p/n, uuid, etc.
Now when I boot it tells me it's in a non commited state, I tried to rebuild the partition via cmd & no luck, I realise that it needs rebranding & I have HP DMI software But to make matters worse there is no physical info on the laptop such as serial no, model no etc.
I'm at a dead end and dont want to make matters worse by attempting things that are going to dig my hole deeper so have turned to the forums, I consider myself a basic user this is my first ever post and Im out of my depth.
The install was a UEFI Win10 on GPT formatted partition from usb.
My laptop is an old but stable HP Elitebook 8540p.
i5
2.53GHz
8 GB ram
BIOS Revision 68CVD Ver. F.60
Thanks in advance for any help.
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