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
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