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What options do you have in your bios?
Try to find a menu in your Bios that has Boot Devices. In that try to see if your HDD and CD rom drives are active. If not then activate them in boot order CD/DVD then HDD if possible. In your Main menu you would see if any devices are working. If not they're may be a problem. 1) Wiring are loose. 2) Device is fried Or just give me the model number and I'll try to find something for you reguarding the bios on HP site. If you look at the Bootdisk.com and try the repair you disk. Using CHKDSK or Scandisk program from the downloadable files. If the repare doesn't work. Then you will have to FDISK and then Full Format. Did you get a recovery disk from HP? Normally that would work. But you said before you can't see CD/DVD drive? |
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quote:Check the cables on the HD and make sure they are secure
It's a Laptop. Hang in there with me guys. Btw I'm on another Laptop talking to you right beside the broken one. |
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Transfer the HDDs and test it. or if you have a external compact portable USB HDD case then you can test it too. |
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06-24-08, 05:25 PM | #21 |
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Usually a laptop HDD is accessable from underneath
Usually a cover with a screw My laptop the HDD has no leads but pushes into a connector Has been known in the past to work loose Taking it out and putting it back has cured that Not saying thats your issue but thats where it is |
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You've got a HP 9000 series, FIREWALL?
I vaguely remember an old thread Anyway, the HDD is fairly easy to get at, the panel with the disk platter symbol on the left underside. Sounds like a corrupt HDD to me, anyway.
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v8000 SERIES I've swapped out the hdd for a new one. I;m thinking it;s the chipset in the mobo. It won't POST and won't accept any software EXCEPT floppy boot disks from external floppy drive. |
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It could be your HDD is finished. The only way you can find out is transfering it to another laptop. Or It could be the IDE controler on your motherboard. Something caused it to fry. Last but not lease you could check your bios to see if you see HDD in the main menu. If you do see the hardrive then its working and may be just corrupt otherwise you have to test it on another computer to see if its working. Under your laptop what is the exact model number shown pls. example, dv8005EA or zd8002AP |
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06-25-08, 02:44 AM | #26 |
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Yup....dead HW. Most likely the MB
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06-26-08, 02:04 PM | #27 |
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Am going to swap the HP HDD into my Fujitsu laptop and see what happens.
It should settle the hdd issue once and for all. Things never go easy or cheap for me. :rotfl: :rotfl: |
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