Hp Format Usb Flash Drive
Office suite premium full download. Download 7-Zip run it and restart your machine. Download the BIOS file and save it to the desk top. Right click on the BIOS file and 'extract files' You should have this: and then open Rompaq to this: Take your flash drive and right click on in 'Computer' to format it to FAT 32 and drag the BIN file onto the flash drive. The BIN file is the actual BIOS information and when I fixed my HDX, that's all that was needed on the flashdrive. (no need to make it bootable) Do not pull the flash drive out from the USB port, in W7 go to your tool bar and click on 'show hidden icons' beside the flag. There will be an option there for the USB port to safely eject the flash drive.
Hp Format Usb Flash Drive
Select a USB Drive that has a capacity of 4GB or less, and can be formatted (erasing all existing data). FreeDOS: Download fd11src.iso from the following link. Oct 2, 2013 - USB flash drives are this century's floppies, holding everything from personal and medical information to music and pictures and even secure.
Windows Cannot Format Usb Flash Drive
In Vista you right click on the flash drive in 'Computer' to eject. Remove the battery and adapter on the bricked computer and hold the power down for 30 seconds. Plug in the flash drive in one of the USB ports on the left side of the machine, hold the 'Windows' and 'B' key at the same time and plug the adapter in. Power up and the laptop should start to beep, when it does, release the key's.
On my HDX I had to repeat these steps twice before it worked. I later took a healthy mother board with a retail copy of W7 on the hard drive to see if I could flash the BIOS in this way, it did not work until the third try. 
I wanted to find out if there had be any HP partitions on the hard drive, which there were none of course. The BIOS file my HDX was named FD and I later found that I had to change its name to BIN, you may have to do the same if this does not work.
Change it from 68AHH.BIN to 68AH.BIN and try again. I don't know if this will work, but you have nothing to loose. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If any one attempts this on their machine please start a new thread and send me a PM of the link to that thread. This way I can assure you get the correct BIOS file on the flash drive or if it's even possible. (I will need your full model and part number on the underside of your laptop) This procedure is not endorsed by HP and is experimental by nature, so this is done at your own risk, however at this point it does look promising.
HaggisCat, sorry for the delayed answer but I was quite busy with other stuff. In short - I tried similar solution before your answer.
However, I did not used 7-zip to unpack the bios executable - I just run it and saw where it stores the files for the following process, which even included creation of a bootable usb bios rescue drive. The exe simply performs quick format of the drive, makes it bootable, even not necessary, and copy in the flash master directory the following files: I tried then to use the stick to bring the brick back to life but without any result - it started to load something from the flash (I saw the led of the flash blinking for a couple of seconds) and after that at least started the CPU fan, but without any other activity (ok, the Caps Lock led was blinking) and/or sounds for more than 10 min. I repeated the operation a couple of times, even tried the old BIOS version but without any success. Best modded pokemon emerald roms.
After this - my colleague brought the brick into an HP service as it almost brand new (less than a week from the purchase) and explained the problem to the guys there. He was told that they will 'diagnose the issue' and will inform him for the solution which might even include a new notebook as the purchase was within a month. Well, two days after he is still waiting for the diagnostics to finish. However, even I did not have the chance to try your exact solution (did not rename the bin file), I thank you for the answer and the help! Hope it will be usefull for someone else! Best regards, Phantom.