<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I seem to have lost a message, so to repeat, Lenovo does offer some BIOS update CDs. If not for your specific exe, at least they would be a starting point to making your own.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Ken<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:50 PM Ken Shaffer <<a href="mailto:kenshaffer80@gmail.com">kenshaffer80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">To determine the type of the exe, just use the file command. Sorry,<br>
no ideas on the running Windows issue.<br>
Ken<br>
<br>
On 11/21/19, Akkana Peck <<a href="mailto:akkana@shallowsky.com" target="_blank">akkana@shallowsky.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> So, I've had my new laptop for a month. Back in July, Rick mentioned<br>
> the Lenovo Carbon X1, and although it was a hair bigger than the 13"<br>
> models I'd been considering, the weight and features sucked me in.<br>
> The Gen 7 is a great Linux laptop, with only a couple of problems:<br>
> in particular, a glitchy trackpad addressed by a firmware update<br>
> that Lenovo only distributes as a .exe.<br>
><br>
> (Before you say it, Rick: Yes, I knew buying the current generation<br>
> had a risk of some as-yet unknown hardware issues. I took that risk<br>
> knowingly because of much better features/price, and in the hope<br>
> there would eventually be fixes for any Gen 7 specific problems.)<br>
><br>
> Things I've tried: I've managed to boot from Win PE, Windows 10<br>
> Installer and Windows 10 Recovery, but none of them can run the<br>
> firmware updater (which claims to be 64-bit, but I don't know how to<br>
> confirm that). I've seen references to "Win to Go" sticks but people<br>
> are vague on how they create them. I tried using qemu to install Win<br>
> 10 onto a USB stick, but after 3 hours the install ended up in an<br>
> infinite reboot loop. I also tried Rufus (in Windows in Virtualbox)<br>
> but it errors out partway through without a clear error message.<br>
><br>
> Has anybody here found a solution for running 64-bit .exes on a<br>
> machine that doesn't have a Windows boot installed?<br>
><br>
> ...Akkana<br>
><br>
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