Solved! Droped my laptop not recovery cd wont work

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I dropped my hp omnibook 530 and it would not boot up instead it ask for recovery cd so I place the cd in and it brings me to the welcome recovery manger.. use this cd to recove I hit next and it ask me to bring it back to factory setting I hit yes and it starts to do it then I get a error 100a i hit ok and it stops and reboots does anyone know what i should do?
 
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You can build yourself a free bootable Rescue CD/DVD if you don't have some other bootable CD/DVD.
AVG Rescue CD: http://www.avg.com/us-en/226386
If only the HDD is the problem (and it sounds like it since you can boot the Recovery CD) you should be able to boot a Rescue CD.
It's from an Anti-virus company but it does have other tools/utilities you can use to check the HDD if it's still working.
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If you're very lucky it might only be that the HDD connectors have come loose. You can check that before deciding to try a HDD replacement.
HP 530 Notebook PC - Removing and Replacing the Hard Drive
You can build yourself a free bootable Rescue CD/DVD if you don't have some other bootable CD/DVD.
AVG Rescue CD: http://www.avg.com/us-en/226386
If only the HDD is the problem (and it sounds like it since you can boot the Recovery CD) you should be able to boot a Rescue CD.
It's from an Anti-virus company but it does have other tools/utilities you can use to check the HDD if it's still working.
arl_utils.PNG


If you're very lucky it might only be that the HDD connectors have come loose. You can check that before deciding to try a HDD replacement.
HP 530 Notebook PC - Removing and Replacing the Hard Drive
 
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