Laptop won't boot past HP Screen

Hi, I have a hp Pavilion Dv5t with specs

HP Pavilion dv5t Entertainment Notebook
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8400 (2.26 GHz)
- 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
- 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
- 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
- 320GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
- SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support

My System originally had Windows Vista 64bit. So I burned a WinXP Pro 64-bit SP1 disc with SATA driver using nlite. I put in the disc, finished the 1st step of installing. Then after the instructed reboot, my laptop wont boot past HP Screen anymore. It just stays at the HP Screen, pressing F2,F10,F11 dont do anything. I can access the BIOS setup if I unplug the hard drive. But as soon as I plug in the hard drive, it just stops at the HP Screen. Does anyone know what I can do?

I installed XP on another partition of the Harddrive, so even if the xp failed somehow, I should still be able to boot the Vista?

 

Try taking out the battery pack and AC power. Hold the power button for 30 second and try starting back up.

Btw is there an option for native SATA in your BIOS?

 

If you have recovery disc try booting of them and try a repair.

 

@flipfire tried, still the same thing, and there is not an option for native SATA in my BIOS. It's dv5t-1000 series.

@SPQR problem is it will not even read or boot from the CD even if I set the priority in BIOS to read CD drive first. When I turn on the power, the HD light flashes for 1 sec, then it goes into the HP screen, and stays there forever.

 

Possible dead hard drive, since the computer won't even complete POST with it installed and how you probably lost your original factory Vista install. Just a thought.

-J.B.

 

Wow, a dead hard drive already? I just got this laptop 2 days ago...brand new

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=306499

 

Thanks! let me see if I can find the cables to connect it.

 

Usually Desktop only have 1 set of those cable, so if I use those cables to connect, I would use the laptop HD as the primary disk and boot the system from it, but my desktop is 32bit, so when I tried to boot the HD which is 64bit, it says its not compatible

 

You can connect the drive using an external drive enclosure (if you have one). Otherwise, you will have to buy a SATA cable.

 

You'd believe it to be a hardware issue, but I'm not thinking HDD because you'd be able to boot from the DVD/Drive, try taking out the harddrive and booting off the reco~disc

 

I had the same issue and it was caused by some sort of corruption during Windows XP installation. Formatting the drive fixed the problem for me.

 

So what stoped it from booting off the reco~disc or better a bootable disc?

 

I didn't think of trying to boot from the recovery disc after I removed the hard drive. I guess if you boot from the recovery disc and then put the hard drive in, that would also work.

 

Ahhh ive had the exact same problem. trying to install XP.

With Vladk1000's advice, i hooked up hdd to another pc. And then ran killdisk on the drive, after that your recovery cd will work.