- Get the BIOS update (IBM ThinkPad 560E System Program Service Diskette) from lenovo.com (as of September 2011: or just search for 560e on the lenovo.com site). - Now put the exe file on a DOS system with a floppy drive -- the 560e with an external floppy drive will do just fine. The crucial point is to put it somewhere other than on the sole floppy drive, preferably you will simply want to copy it over to c: (Note that Wine won't work for the next part of our exercise, you'll have to run the program on system which can execute an exe file and write in a dd kind of fashion onto a floppy; simply extracting the files from the exe via Wine won't be enough, the thing will have to be bootable). - Then put a fresh floppy into the a: drive (or just format a: after having transfered the exe over to c:). Now execute the exe file and agree to all the EULA and what not and have it do its thing. Execute as follows: "spsdhr22.exe a:" -- giving it the a: as a command line option will make it write the BIOS update disk image onto the new floppy, which is what you want. - Then reboot with the floppy left in the drive, now will come up the BIOS update, the rest is straightforward. - A final hurdle in my case was that the program on the new disk refused to flash the BIOS because the battery was not good enough in its humble opinion. In which case you'll have to run the due program from within DOS again with "/forceit" as a commandline option; that did in my case. - Voila, you're done.