Re: GT72 Dominator (GTX970) Upgrading Hard Drives, imaging fails

Quote from: zipper on Yesterday at 19:32:10Why don't you just clone to ssd - there are so many good free programs to do it?
I have considered it but I'd really like to have the recovery partition on the new m...

Hello everybody,
I have a GT70 2OD-064US, and today I wanted to do an update of the BIOS and Firmware.
So I enter into the BIOS, and saw my model, IMS.503 E1763, and my firmware, EMS1 v.501 1763.
I downloaded the appropriate version of the firmware: 17...

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