Bad problems with Pavillion dv9000 please help urgent

i really need my laptop for monday's presentation, after some problems with the bluescreen, i decided to do the recovery for it, after i had the recovery disc in for 1 or 2 hours, it said wait for vista to start for the first time, then it comes to windows vista with no driver and problems with harddrive, here is the specs of my laptop

intel core2duo 2.2
2x120GB hdd
2gb ddr2
128MB dedicated graphic

but now after the recovery, problems with drivers, wireless, webcam..... the worst is harddrive, there were 3 hdd installed on my laptop
C is main one with about 105GB
D is recovery partition which is part of C about 8GB
F is storage 120GB

but now
C is only 25GB
D disapears
F is normal

can anyone help me with this please, i really appreciate it.

 

Ok, lets sort this out. You have 2 hdds with 3 partitions acros them, so they are either, most likely, raid 0 or 1? If so, have you tried like a F* for onboard (without cd) recovery? If so, did that fail, thus you went the DVD way?

 

i didnt know how to use the recovery partition i thought the cd and partition were the same, so i just feel like using the disc would be easier so... i didnt even use the partition but i noe it would work, if i used partition, i wouldnt be in trouble like this

 

Did you use the HP recovery disks? They're crap.Seriously, something's wrong with them. I used them and they did the same thing to my computer, only one partition of 30GB was visible. Fortunately that forced me to do a clean install. But since it takes several hours, I'd recommend you use your own recovery dvds. You did create them, didn't you?

PS. I had used the recovery dvds I had burned myself, and my laptop kept crashing no matter what, so I recommend you do the clean installation, if I could do it, anybody can. It just takes longer.

 

i did use the HP recovery disc its taking forever to get all the softwares and drivers, i think im gonna throw that disc away after this, how can i do a clean install to get my 120GB back?
Unfortunately i didnt creat any recovery disc
I wanna do the clean installation too but i dont know how, i wanna keep my original vista business without any crap.
Thanks for your time

 

There's a sticky on this board: Clean Vista install WITH NO ACTIVATION.

Make sure you follow every step on the guide: save the swsetup folder (with drivers and installation files), backup your files, get the Vista key (don't delete anything until you create the files), burn a BOOTABLE installation DVD (the link with the files in on the post), etc. Everything is well explained on that thread. It took me several hours, but I made several mistakes like burning 2 non-bootable dvds. You'd need to install everything from that swsetup folder to begin with, then you can update from the HP website.

I'm still installing all the programs and drivers, but it's going well so far. Good luck.

 

Try this recovery disk to fix it up, maybe it will work. (Crosses fingers). You can do a clean install by putting in the DVD's and hitting format partition, blah, but I think you have tried and it has failed already. If you had an original ISO of Vista it would be different.

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

 

If you can still manage to create your recovery DVD's, do so! That's important.

 

no i dont think i can create the recovery dvd now, everything is messed up, i'll try all the solution you all showed me, thanks everyone for your time, im doing it now, i'll let you know when im done, thanks again

 

Allow me to insist, if you still have the recovery partition you might be able to create the DVDs. If there's a problem with your computer and you need to send it to get it repaired, HP could blame it on the clean installation just to screw you with the warranty. Just my 2 cents.

 

hix i really don't know what to do now, it don't even let me go in windows, it keeps asking me to reformat the harddrive and install the orginal software and driver, i already did it twice, i cant even go it windows now

 

i just tried with XP here is the result i still have 2x120GB hdd

 

it requires the driver disc or something that comes along with the laptop but i dont have it, i think that's the reason why, is anyone using dv9000 with the driver disc, i really need help

 

You can download all the vista drivers from www.hp.com

 

Is there not an option to start the recovery from an F key (as mentioned in post #2)? Or is it too far gone. Did you try it to see if it can do that.

That recovery is supposed to put all drivers, programs, etc, back to the same as new. I have not done it from an F key myself, only via Windows, in the Start menu which you can't. When it was done it was exactly the same as day one. It didn't need any drivers.

I might be wrong, but can you get in to BIOS at boot, and is there an option to start recovery there? Someone will know.

I think its F11 at start.

 

Use the recovery disc and do a full recovery, then leave the house for a couple of hours or so while it reloads everything. If you sit there and watch it, you will think it's done and think you can use the computer "when it's actually not done" and screw up the recovery process which takes a long time and doesn't really have a progress indicator.

This is my advice, sort of happened to me.

 

hummm, the driver in question is probably your sata driver disc, but i would do the full recovery as mbmalone. by pressing f11 and using your recovery partition, you can be up and running in about 1hr and half....