HP dv8000t Reinstallation Guide

I just received my DV6000T CTO, they no longer include a swsetup/hdd directory, I had to get it from someone on the forum. I think the link/file should be made available on the original post.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=117365&highlight=sata+driver+swsetup

 

I just recently got a dv6226 tx.... it ships with Vista but i want god ol XP. Are the drivers in SwSetup compatible with XP? Will this procedure work?

 

Follow the guide linked below instead of this one...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=119155

 

Thanx Miner. Just wht i needed.

 

Hi,
I've recently bought a Pavilion dv8000ca (a Canadian French keyboard with French XP Home edition). What I did is that I formatted it and installed English XP Pro Media Center Edition. Now, all the original HP utilities that ship with the original install are missing (Quickplay, HP recovery CD-DVD creator...etc). I still have the partition that contains the recovery install....but it is encrypted and can't see how to take only what I need from it...I don't want to take everything since it is in French. Is there a way I can replace the French recovery by an English one that includes HP's original software? Any ideas, links, torrents? please help!

 

Hi! Here's how I solved it.
At the begining of the installation the application asks for "Microsoft .NET 2.0" to be installed. So I've uninstalled the "Quick Launch Buttons" software > rebooted the computer > installed .NET 2.0 > reinstalled the application > rebooted. Now everything works fine.
Hope it'll work for you to.

 

I just did a reinstall as per the OP's very nicely done guide and everything went smoothly the first time.

The only problem I have is I cant find the sata achi driver anywhere to reinstate the sata in the bios. I contacted hp via their live help and after going around in circles with whoever it was on the other end trying to explain that all I want is the driver sans floppy installer bat exe I got told to go buy a usb floppy drive. I politely pointed out that it was a rather expensive option for something as minor as a sinlge driver and that as hp rarely instals floppy drives anymore they should sort the problem out.

Does anyone here have the achi driver in a format other than the hp exe file?
My comp seems to run fine without the sata enabled but I'd prefer to fix it.

Thanks.

 

I think I recall that if I set windows up for non Sata, then it didnt work when I later enabled it. Blue screen. Seems like it needed to have SATA drivers slipstreamed into the windows install disk and the SATA option chosen in the bios before install. Kinda hazy as is been a while.

 

Hmmm

I was just going by the guide at the beginning. I still can't get over the fact that i cant get the driver form HP. Its rediculous.

 

My Bios does not give me the option to disable SATA and win trying to install XP I received an error message stating no drive found. Is there another way to disable SATA? HP support will not help and told me that installing XP on my laptop will void the warranty. I need XP for my job. We have many programs that are not Vista compatible. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

That's excatly why you'd slipstream an XP disk with the SATA drivers.

 

hey folks;
I have a big Problem... I try 1 million times install the HP quickplay direct and all times i have a message BSOD.
My notebook is a new DV5-1004nr...
Any one have a good experience on this model?

Thanks for help...

 

Please don't double post. I replied to this question in your other post.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4252180#post4252180