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    Pavillion dv6780se Not working after restore

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Staxweb, Sep 18, 2009.

  1. Staxweb

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    Greetings,

    Last week my computer just stopped working. Just wouldn't boot up all the way, not sure if it got a virus or what...but it sucked.

    When it first happened I tried to run the system restore from the restore partition, it got to 87% and failed, on 4 tries. After that I decided to make a set of restore disks from my wifes computer to try that (same exact computer). After 4 tries with that, 3 times error after disk 5, 1 error after last disk...I ordered the official restore disks from HP.

    I did the above process on the original hard drive, and then went out and bought a new one...same results with the home made disks on that.

    Now, with the restore disks on my new hard drive, it gets through both disk, finishes the restore and then start installing all the damn bloatware that comes with HP...sometime during this process after one of the restarts the computer loads a black screen that says Operating System not found...

    any ideas what could be wrong? I did a disk diagnostic from BIOS and it all checks out. But since my warranty is passed HP won't help with troubleshooting so I'm not sure where to go from here.

    I'd love to take it to geeksquad at the moment, but sadly buying that new hard drive was all the spare money I can muster up at the moment.

    Any advice on what else I could check/try?
     
    Staxweb, Sep 18, 2009
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  2. Th3_uN1Qu3

    Th3_uN1Qu3 Notebook Deity

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    Do yourself a favor and use a retail disc. Or Windows 7, that you can still download for free legally. ;)
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Sep 18, 2009
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  3. Staxweb

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    Where can I download it for free legally? Thought the downloads were cancelled?

    And how long would I be able to use it? it's only till next month isn't it?

    retail disk isn't an option..as I said, no money to spend right now sadly :(
     
    Staxweb, Sep 18, 2009
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  4. brianstretch

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    Pavilion dv6780se specifications

    Usually when such weirdness happens I blame a failing NVIDIA GPU, 8400 series in the dv6780se, but in your case that's a bit of a reach. Other than that all I can think is running generic tests like MemTest86+ and seeing if anything fails.
     
    brianstretch, Sep 19, 2009
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  5. Staxweb

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    how exactly do I use it since all I can really do on the comp is get the the boot/bios screens at the moment?
     
    Staxweb, Sep 19, 2009
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    MemTest86+ boots directly off CD. If you can get into the BIOS you can probably boot CDs.
     
    brianstretch, Sep 20, 2009
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  7. Staxweb

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    well, I got the Win 7 downloaded and trying to install it now, but when it gets the the fresh install screen it's telling me it can't find the drivers.

    I'm assuming this is because the HP restore doesn't finish? :(
     
    Staxweb, Sep 20, 2009
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  8. Th3_uN1Qu3

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    What drivers? Or do you mean it can't find the drive? If that's the case you may have a bad HDD.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Sep 20, 2009
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