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UNABLE TO LOAD XP ON A HP PAVILION DV 9000 LAPTOP

Asked by gandalexd in PC Laptops, Windows XP Operating System, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: hp, dv9000, xp, pavilion, 9000

Long winded problem here, please bear with me....help would be gratefully appreciated...

I have a HP PAVILION DV9000 laptop. I want to put a copy (Legit!!!!!) of XP PRO on it. When I boot up from the CD it goes through the start up process and when it gets to the setup screen (INSTALL XP , PRESS R to START RECOVERY etc etc) I press enter to install a new copy of windows and get the following message...

SETUP COULD NOT FIND ANY HARD DISK DRIVES INSTALLED IN YOUR COMPUTER.
MAKE SURE ANY HARD DISK DRIVES ARE POWERED ON AND PROPERLY CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER AND THAT AND DISK-RELATED HARDWARE CONFIGURATION IS CORRECT.
THIS MAY INVOLVE RUNNING A MANUFACTURER-SUPPLIED DIAGNOSTIC OR SETUP PROGRAM.
SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE. TO QUIT SETUP, PRESS F3.

Here's the good part...... I rebooted a few times and then suddenly, out of the blue, it went in to setup and installed windows. (No clue as to why this happened, it just did!!!) After setting up windows and configuring the laptop I added all the Windows updates and added a few HP updates. When I did a BIOS update, the machine rebooted and blue screened when trying to start windows. I went into the BIOS and checked the version numbers and it had updated to the new BIOS.

After messing around for a while I decided to re-install windows from scratch and try again.........I got the same error as above and couldn't get past the setup screen.

So....I tried old faithful....

I installed SUSE 10.2....which went straight in and loaded up no problem. I now have a fully functioning SUSE box with all the bells and whistles,  I configured up all the cards, drivers etc on the laptop, works like a dream, fantastic, only problem is, that it needs to be a windows box!!!!!!! No choice in the matter, it has to be XP.

Went back and tried to install windows and got the same error as above!!!!!!!!!

(All the LINUX guys on this site are probably laughing their asses off by now!!!!!)

Tried to fdisk the hard-disks (the laptop has 2x 80gb drives) and the only partition it found was one 8mb partition. Deleted the partition, same problem still occurs..

How do I get this machine back up and running with XP????? I can get a hold of the original install disks that came with the laptop which would probably help (and work). I just want to format the disks and install a new copy of windows, why oh why oh why wont this work!!!!!!!!!

Any insight, pointers, help, advice??????

Many thanks,

G


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Tags: hp, dv9000, xp, pavilion, 9000
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