HP dv6000 notebook won't boot after hard disk upgrade

[nishant80]

I am facing a peculiar problem on my HP dv6000 series notebook ((dv6885se)). This problem came after I upgraded my HDD to a bigger one and installed XP on it. The old 250GB HDD had vista (factory installed) and XP in dual boot and it never gave a problem in 2 years till it sort of died one day (some bad sectors, reallocated sector count increasing and occasional OS freezes). Didn't want to take a chance with data and hence got a new SATA 500GB seagate drive (ST9500325AS). The problem is that I often get a blank screen after the HP invent logo. I have to keep rebooting (about 5-6 times) till I can see the image of XP booting up. Once the OS boots up, it runs without any problems!

The bad sectors on old HDD were causing OS to hang and it was not clearing the self test in BIOS as well. This is why I got myself the new HDD. The self test on the new one came out clean. I also scanned it with hdtune and it showed no bad sectors. Besides, whenever I manage to boot up after many ctrl-alt-dels, it runs absolutely fine. I just can't understand why my notebook will sometimes hang after the BIOS screen. Please help me out.

Thanks in anticipation!

Note:
- I have 2 partitions C: 50GB and D: 437 GB
- I have gone through the other thread on tomshardware that talks about the 137GB limit of "C:". My problems do not fit into that description.
- Link to that thread is "http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/237351-45-boot-large-hard-drive"

 

[mhanif0087]

Hi all;
I was also facing the same problem. Suddenly my HP dv6000 stop detecting the hard drive. I search for all possible solution but at the end i got a very usefull and simple solution. all you need to do is to "Disable" the "SATA Native Hard Drive" option in your BIOS. and that it.......your hard disk in active now!!!!

 

[mhanif0087]

Hi All;

the solution is to "Disable" the "SATA NAtive Hard Drive" option in the BIOS.
this will made your HD visible to the system. you might need to reinstall the windows