HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw - eMMC write protection problem

[bpjl]

Hello,

I am using google translator so sorry for language mistakes.

I have a problem with the HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw laptop. I tried to reinstall the system but the installer worked very slowly.

Wanting to see what is happening I started Linux from USB drive. It turned out that the GPT partition table was damaged. J can't do anything about it because no program can write to eMMC.
As if it was write-protected.

Can anything be done about it or is it hardware damage to this memory?

[sicilianul]

Re: HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw - eMMC write protection problem

Search on google - DLC Boot, install it on a USB flash drive (8Gb at least) and run mini windows 10. Here you will find some useful software to test your flash eMMC.

[tomrlopes]

Re: HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw - eMMC write protection problem

Run lsblk to get the device name

Assuming /dev/mmcblk0 then

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=1

This will wipe the whole partition table.

[bpjl]

Re: HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw - eMMC write protection problem

Search on google - DLC Boot, install it on a USB flash drive (8Gb at least) and run mini windows 10. Here you will find some useful software to test your flash eMMC.

Which tool is best to use to get the information I need?

Run lsblk to get the device name

Assuming /dev/mmcblk0 then

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=1

This will wipe the whole partition table.

As a result, I received:
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 30.0403 s, 0.0 kB/s

[bpjl]

Re: HP Pavilion x2 10-n140nw - eMMC write protection problem

At the very end of the Internet a person appeared who coped with this problem and shared the solution:

Champagne is in order I wish I could share it with you.
I've done it.
I updated the BIOS to the latest one dated 2018. I did this by pasting an image of the BIOS into HP diagnostic tool. The Bios update tool wouldn't work I had to do it that way.
I then tried a fresh install using custom install.
I tried to delete the partitions but all it seemed to do was empty them. I then used diskpart command Clean All.
When I tried to install again the whole disk was unallocated.
The install ran perfectly.
Not sure if my assumption is correct but it seems the old BIOS was stopping me from clearing the drive.
Hope this helps somebody. The model is HP Pavilion x2 - 10-n154na (Energy Star).
Thanks guys for all your help.

It worked