Hello I have an Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop. I must update the BIOS to the latest version. There are 2 ways to flash the BIOS that I know of.
Run the .exe file from the official website that will flash it from Windows- Recovery mode (from USB, but it needs the clean .fd file)
Well I am a Linux user so option 1 is out question. And please don't suggest Linux based flashers, most of them are buggy and not compatible for all versions, and can easily brick the computer from what I heard of.
So I need to flash the BIOS with the .fd file from an USB stick using the "Recovery Mode" that the Acer laptop provides.
The BIOS can be obtained from here:
It's a .zip file containing an .exe file named Q5WV1113.exe
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The question is how to obtain the .fd file from the Q5WV1113.exe file?
I have extracted the Q5WV1113.exe file and there is no .fd file in it:
As you can see, a bunch of other files but there is no .fd file. I would like to recover the .fd file from here.
Is there any way to recover the .fd file from these files, with some tool or something, preferably in Linux? Thanks!