Hello,<br><br>I&#39;m hoping you can help me.<br><br>My daughter was given a laptop that had suffered a disk crash (I also suspect it had suffered a vicious virus).  I replaced the HDD but could not get the damned machine to load windows from CD.  I tried everything and then tried installing Ubuntu instead - worked first time - amazing!  Problem is my daughter needs to use a specialist app which is not supported under Linux so I need to get Windows on there somehow.  <br>
I suspected that the BIOS is corrupt as it just refuses to boot windows from CD (tried 3 different copies) so thought I would try Flashrom.  I am not particularly techie so am probably doing something stupid but this is what happens when I try it ...<br>
<br>new@new-desktop:~$ sudo flashrom -r backup.bin<br>flashrom v0.9.1-r706<br>No coreboot table found.<br>Found chipset &quot;Intel ICH4-M&quot;, enabling flash write... FAILED!<br>This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.<br>
Error: Programmer initialization failed.<br>.<br>any help would be gratefully received.<br><br>regards<br><br>Martin Hann<br><br> <br>