HP Pavilion DV2000 can't detect Hard drive.

Hello,

I’ve HP Pavilion DV2000 (dv2015ea) working like a horse since a year, it runs XP Home. All of a sudden it couldn’t detect the hard drive.

- 1st of all I don’t want to format the hard drive.
- I believe that the problem is the driver of SATA drive, but I have no clue how to install it or fix it without formatting the drive (I have an external USB Floppy drive if it might help).

Did anyone face such a problem before? And how can I ride of it?

Thanks

 

Does it show up in the BIOS? If not, it's dead.

 

did u recently mess up with the BIOS settings. i am not familiar to the hp bios, however try these :

1. go to bios
2. go to onboard peripherals >> onboard SATA
3. check whether it is in SATA instead of AHCI or RAID

 

Hello all, thanks for reply.

brianstretch

it’s there, I tested it through BIOS and it has no problem, the problem starts after the Windows logo shows off, a blue screen appears for a second, then the notebook restart. Don’t ask me about the blue screen cuz I couldn’t read a letter there.

kuncheesh

nope I didn’t, im kinda an expert with laptops, but not HP for sure. And yes the hard drive is there and I tested it.

Thanks

 

I don't believe your notebook has an option for changing your hard drive settings in the BIOS.

Try getting a hold of Memtest. It sounds like there could be a faulty stick.

Or your hard drive is dying. Let's don't assume this quite yet.

 

naif824,

looks like your HP may fall into the recall category HP recently released.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c01087277

should've gotten an email from them if you registered that HP when you got it w/ your email. but if not, here's the scoop.

i had a dv2210 worked for almost a year as well...then bam, same problems you are having. sent it in to them, did not have it for about 2 months, finally a case manager sent me a brand new dv2700t.

apparently the motherboards overheated and started burning out other parts in the laptop until eventually...

i;d give HP a call.

 

Hello,
I removed the hard drive, run it on another laptop, the C partition was inaccessible which means it’s affected by a virus or anything that cleared it. Anyway, I don’t care anymore about the data there, the other partition of the recovery is okay, but the problem now is that I cant run recovery from the boot ! I press F11 but can’t get anything that would run the recovery process. Any idea?
Thanks

 

It's more likely that the drive is dying. Good thing you don't care about your data, though I've had some success at data recovery. If your notebook is still under warranty you can let HP replace it, or buy a new HD (Seagate and Hitachi are my two favorite brands) and do a proper clean OS install while you're at it. Seagate's new 5400.4 series is probably what I'd go with.

The HD manufacturer should have free diagnostics that you can download from their website. Better yet, there's SpinRite if you don't mind not-free. Or see whether or not the HD will even format.