Once your Device and Boot selection has been set, go ahead and click Start to flash the device. Select your USB device you wish to flash (note this will erase all data on your device) and set the Boot selection to FreeDOS. Rufus' website can officially be found here: You can obtain a copy of the utility here. This utility is an open source utility for Windows only, but will allow you to make a bootable USB drive. Make a bootable driveįirst, you will want to download a copy of the Rufus utility. In this case, the instructions below will show you have to make the drive bootable and then launch the USB Flash Package. While the USB Flash Package (.zip) is exactly what we are looking for, by default if you just drag the files onto your USB drive, it won't boot to the flash utility.

This tutorial will review how to create a bootable USB drive to flash the fimrware/bios on your Lenovo device.īefore we begin, Lenovo offers three different downloads for Firmware today: