dv1000 no ide device

Recently installed Windows 7 on the notebook, maybe a couple days, started the laptop up one morning and it went into a network boot loop. Went into the bios, and it said no ide device. Popped the hard drive into another notebook, it sees the hard drive (but thinks it's empty), sees it in Win 7 setup as well as in Ubuntu. How do i go about troubleshooting what could be wrong w/ the dv1000.

I figure it's either an issue w/ the motherboard or w/ the hard drive connector if the hard drive works fine in the other notebook.

 

I believe the ide device for the HDD is loaded when first installing windows. It could be that it got corrupted somehow. I would try and reinstall your windows 7 disc again before swapping out hardware parts. If it that doesn't work then you are liekly right and have either a mobo problem or hdd connector problem. Both pieces can be had for relatively cheap on Ebay.

 

I can't install windows 7 on the machine, it doesn't see the hard drive on the dv1000, when i put the hard drive in , another notebook w/ the windows 7 install it does see it, but the install failed, i suspect the other machine doesn't have the specs to support windows 7.

I've decided i was going to try & flash the bios, but can't seem to find any info on how to do it when i can't boot into windows. The bios files from hp are all designed to be run from inside windows.

Any ideas?

 

That there tells me the hard drive isn't "working fine". You're most likely looking at a bad HDD.

 

inversely when i put a known working hard drive into the dv1000 it doesn't find it either. When i put it in the other machine and booted using ubuntu it was able to find and browse the drive. What i see on the drive now, are files related to when i tried to do the windows 7 setup on the older machine and it failed.