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    HP ZV6000 boot problems after upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mrktvalu, Jun 7, 2010.

  1. mrktvalu

    mrktvalu Notebook Enthusiast

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    After upgrading my HP zv6000 laptop, the bios message display and boot process has changed dramatically. My system configuration is: HP zv6130us laptop (AMD64 3200+); 2GB RAM; 250GB hard disk (upgraded from 80GB oem); and Windows XP Home SP3.

    I used to be able to interrupt the bios message to change the boot device from CD to Hard disk, but now the bios message ("HP Invent logo" center screen and "Enter <esc> to change boot device or <f10> to enter setup..." bottom screen) displays for 90 seconds irrespective of any action I take. The PC will eventually boot from the Hard disk, but in order to boot from CD, I need to completely remove the hard disk from the boot order configuration. The boot process is not interruptable to boot in safe mode.

    When I upgraded the hard disk, HP advised me that they support only 100MB on this model, but I see lots of people have upgraded with disks > 100MB. To do the upgrade, I made an Acronis image backup and restored from the backup. Is it possible that these problems result from Acronis restoring the old master boot record from the 100MB disk coinfiguration?

    When I boot from the CD recovery console and attempt to use FIXMBR, I get the following warning:

    This computer appears to have a nonstandard or invalid master boot record. FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed. This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to become inaccessible. If you are not having problems accessing your drive, do not continue. Are you sure you want to write a new MBR?

    So far I have chickened out and responded "No". Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
     
    mrktvalu, Jun 7, 2010
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