|HPBiosUpdate::Partition::AccessEspPartition|No ESP partition found. HPBiosUpdate::Partition::FindEspPartition|No GPT hard drive found. HPBiosUpdate::Partition::FindEspPartition|PartitionStyle = PARTITION_STYLE_GPT, PartitionCount: 3 I added the HP_Tool partition as mentioned to the first partition, it fails with 260 So what I did was, we partition legacy to UEFI first then apply BIOS setting and then partiton UEFI and apply operating system, normally this was working until this new firmware update. This log provided the details about the error code 282, which simply state Same Firmware version no need to update!.Under the run path of HPFirmwareUpgRec, it will automatically create a log file with the same name.Manually running the command line from within windows led me to better understand the error.
Retrying the task sequence over the same computer brought up another error for the BIOS upgrade.Once this was added the update went well! Hurray!!.No need to assign a letter for that drive, but the name is important.Add to your partitioning task the following partition.without this partition, the BIOS will NOT update at all.
Turns out that the HPFirmwareUpgRec is using that partition to update the BIOS. On the new models, HP provides by default an HP_TOOLS partition of 2GB.
But that was not the end to surprises. Note that the previous password.bin file worked just fine. the package used is pointing to the root of the folder where the tool and the. So the Run Command Line set should look like this. The -b option turned out to be necessary even if BitLocker was not enabled yet as part of the task sequence. The command line should be : HpFirmwareUpdRec64.exe -s -pPWD.bin -r -b. BIN file within the source folder and use it. After multiple testing, turns out that we can just skip the -F option and the tool will find the. If we look closely, the -F as changed from specifying the ROM Bin file, to specify the folder containing the firmware update files. Looking at the help from the old and new tool points to the exact same command line or almost…. If the file is not there, the update should be done using the old tool HPBIOSUPDREC.exe like before. When downloading the bits from HP, looking at the BIOS files you need to see HPFirmwareUpdRec.exe. In this post, we will show hot to update HP BIOS using the latest HPFirmwareUpdRec tool within a task sequence. we were able to figure it out by digging into HP forums… Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem HP documented the new tool and how to use it. Even if the help stated the command line to be the same, it turned out it didn’t work at all. HP released a new version called HPFirmwareUpdRec to replace it. Looking at details about the BIOS update, we noticed that the HPBIOSUPDREC.exe that was used was no longer available. 
Downloading drivers and BIOS updates were the usual. At a client site, they received newest HP models to be tested.
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