HP Pavilion 6000 No windows boot.

[dankos1]

Hi, My HP pavilion 6000 starts ok and I can access the bios. It does not recognize the hard drive though. I can boot with Linux Mepis and it works with the cd. However I cannot install onto hard drive. I have tried Vista as well and it starts copying files and then it halts. It seems that it cannot recognize hard drives. I tried another hard drive from my son's laptop and still the same problem. Any idea what could be wrong? Thank you.

 

[Saga Lout]

Something major could be wrong with the motherboard. Go to HP's site and search for DV6000 overheating. After a bit of running around, you should get to a page into which you can input your serial number and see if you qualify for a replacement motherboard because of their known overheating problem.

 

[dankos1]

Thank you Veteran. I will go to their site.