Well, I have tried everything, I have 2 legit W7 discs, and another not so legit disc. And none of them want to install windows. I read somewhere that the AHCI setting can have something to do with it. But in my bios I can only set the date and time.
sometimes u have to load chipset drivers in the advanced section of win7 install. lets u browse for usb with driver.
Still no good.... The pen drive has found the file (if it doesnt find it the laptop just turns itself off) it looks like its reading the file but then does not shut its self down...its just sits there blinking its CAPS lock & NUM lock LED`s as if nothing had happend....i feel like giving up and sending it to HP...any ideas? Also... I`am wondering if there is a different .FD file i could use/try, there is lots of HP dv6 laptop models just wondering if any (a big IF) might work with my laptop....? I have also noticed that if i open the 3635F13.FD file in notepad it shows: 옂逷駿￠郰飿￠哯ｿ郰쿴￠ワ囦ﾐ郿賷ﻠ╴勤菵ﾐ郿賷ﻠ♴勤菵ﾐ ect.. But other HP dv6 .FD files show: Äš÷gàÿôAàðÓŸP; `3 `3÷fàeôtð£ÿÔð@_ïdûp/úÎàD€ðàTûðàTýðàDð ect... I know its a long shot but maybe the laptop doesnt understand it (with it obviously being in a different language?) ...Never get a HP laptop total nightmare...lol Thanks for the reply!
Be sure to use a pendrive (max 2GB) fully formatted with FAT32 filesystem (not NTFS). Are you sure about your HP laptop model?
I have tried that and still no luck, the latop is a HP Pavillion Dv6 2010sa...is there any other .FD i could use/try?? Thanks
That was an excellent start and it is also what led me to the problem. It appears that my SP1 discs can't get along with some sort of RAID setting in the bios. I would appreciate if somebody can look into unlocking my bios, so I can switch this to IDE or whatever needs to be done.