HP Pavilion dv8380us...PLEASE HELP!!!

hi to everyone...

i have hp dv8380us which gave me nothing but trouble
you guy know how much crap comes instaled with hp laptops so i tried to unistall everything...and...trouble
i tried to reinstall win xp mc and it tells me "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed" after that i have this
file is missing or corrupted (windows root)\ system32\hal.dll. please reinstall a copy of the above file....after that it keeps to tell me
windows\system32\ confog\system.sav

now i can't even boot up system....it goes all over again same process

can anybody help me with this...step by step what to do. i seen a few threads about this but nothing really can hepl me.
i'd really appreciate any help

 

If you hit F10 when you power on your laptop, it should bring you into the BIOS configuration area, where you can disable "Native SATA Support" (Chipset configuration, I believe). That should let you see the drive when you try installing Windows.

If it still doesn't boot off of the CD, try hitting escape to force it to the CD.

 

The SATA support is your problem. I hope you backed up your Swsetup directory because this is where the drivers for the SATA support are.

 

tnx guys for reply....
i have my problem fixed with recovery discs....which was my last option because i had to clean up again all crap that comes with hp laptop. i would really like to have a clean instalation of OS. do i lose all this backup stuff like swsetup with clean OS installation and can i run recovery discs somethimes after that if i need it?

@vassil...i have swsetup...should i install drivers before OS installation or do i have to create "slipstream" SATA driver on windows CD...???
is that driver under HDD folder?

@matthewt...strange...when i disable native sata support...next time when i come back to the bios for some reason it's on enable

 

You can DOWNLOAD the drivers from www.hp.com

Best to back the C:\SwSetup folder, and download ALL the SP's from HP.

The SP's (the drivers) you download "may" be newer than the ones in the C:\SwSetup folder.

At this point in time all the drivers you need should be UP on the HP site.

If not search the site for dv8000t....

 

Better yet just do the following and you will be fine:

Without your os disc in the drive boot your system and enter the bios. Upon entrance into the bios find the Native sata support (which will be enabled) and DISABLE it. Save your changes and reboot the computer with your os cd in the drive now.

installl the os and after you get done with the install (before you begin to install your drivers and such) reenter into bios and enable the native sata drive. Save your changes and reboot the system.

Continue on and you will be fine.

scott

 

I've always heard that causes blue screens.

Regardless I think you might have left out a step...

1: disable the sata via the bios,
2: make the dvd drive the first bootable device,
3: stick Os disc in,
4: reboot,
5: press ESC if needed to bring up the boot menu,(if disc does not automaticlly read)
6: Select dvd drive,
7: install the OS,
8: install the SATA drivers...
9: then reboot go into the bios change it back over to SATA.

10: Reboot and the OS should come up using the SATA drivers you just installed.

 

that is fine too but I did it the way I typed it when I did a fresh install and it worked flawlessly.

scott