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Need Advice for Vista recovery problem on my HP dv9700

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  • Data Recovery
  • Windows Vista
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Hard Drives
  • USB
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July 30, 2014 12:23:50 AM

Hallo everyone,

The hard drive in my HP dv9700 Notebook recently started to fail. I pulled the drive and using a SATA => USB cable I was able to move all of my important files(Documents, Pics, Spreadsheet) to a external USB WD 1T hard drive.

I purchased/installed a new WD 1T hard drive, but when I attempted recovery using my 3 CD recovery backups made last year ... I found out that my Optical Drive was dead(the internal ribbon cable was folded over and crushed under the CD Drive Carrier). I purchased a LG USB Optical Drive but then discovered that the BIOS in the dv9700 won't allow booting from a USB Optical Drive. It recognizes my USB flash drives and USB Portable hard drive but not the USB Optical Dirive.. I also confirmed this with HP and the dv9700 series specification - a USB Floppy is OK but not a USB DVD ... really strange!

I have another HP G6 Notebook running Windows 7. I'm wondering if I can:

Swap the new 1T drive into the HP g6 and recover Vista from my 3 backup CD's. Then pop the hard drive back into the HP dv9700?

If that's not possible, will any of these options work?

1) Move or copy the 3 CD Backup set to a boot-able USB hard drive and then perform the recovery directly on my HP dv9700:

2) Create a single ISO of the 3 CD's on my USB hard drive and perform the recovery:

I've checked around for a replacement ATAPI DVD drive ... I've seen a few replacement drive carrier's but that won't correct the crushed ribbon cable. I've searched around for the ribbon cable but that's been a dead end.

Finally, the OS was pre-installed thus my having only the backup CD's. I can purchase the re-installation CD's for $23.00 if needed. I didn't purchase them because the DVD drive wasn't working.

Hope this helps explain my problem. Thanks for any help or suggestions offered.

Joe

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July 30, 2014 12:54:15 AM

You will most likely need to do a clean install.
You can get the files and instructions here: http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microso...

Also if your old HDD is still running you can clone it with Macrium Reflect but you will need a USB to SATA adapter for that.
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July 30, 2014 1:51:57 AM

Some thing which may work is put new hard disk in another laptop or PC
Start recovery install, which will partition & format drive
Then copy files onto hard drive
Then reboot PC
(Then start configuring windows & drivers)

At this point force shutdown to prevent restart
Move hard drive back to correct laptop

Windows on Laptop will start detecting hardware , reboot multiple times

Alternative make a bootable USB memory stick using first bootable DVD and rufus or one of similar programs that turns bootable DVD or ISO into USB memory stick

Add contents of second & third DVD to USB memory stick ( not the ISO file but the archive files it contains)

If all the above fails buy a new vista or 7 DVD and use the Microsoft program which installs windows 7 ISO or DVD on a USB memory stick
And install from USB memory stick

Regards
Mike Barnes
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July 30, 2014 6:50:18 PM

Are you certain that the optical drive in that unit uses a cable because in the past and from everything I can find online on the dv700 it shows a removeable optical drive connector that the optical drive connects directly to by pushing it onto the pins. Not that you're wrong, but that's what I'm seeing and I know I've replace a couple of them in the past. I do however realize that some components can change even within the same model family. Is the cable you're referring to connect between the optical drive connector unit and the board maybe?
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