- Dec 25, 2010
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I have a HP Pavillion TS Sleekbook 15
Model#: 15-b129wm
I started getting a message that it could not find a hard drive on this machine and to install an operating system, thinking the hard drive was fried I got a new hard drive.
This machine does not come with a cd drive or a dvd drive at all. Therefore I put windows 7 ult 64 bit on a thumb drive via .iso.
I am attempting to install windows on it, but in the installation process, I get that message that it requires a cd/dvd drive. so I go to HP drivers for this model, I only see drivers for windows 8 (which is what this laptop came with originally). BUT it does not have any drivers for a cd / dvd drive as this machine did not come with those.
I have seen youtube videos to unplug and replug in the thumb drive into a different usb but this one only has 2 usb ports and this trick does not work.
I am thinking I need to format this 1tb hdd with my main computer as GPT. Then boot from my win7 ult 64bit cd and install windows on this hdd this way.
PS: I did that last step above minus the formatting of the new hdd at the very beginning, and this laptop still won't read it.
What are your thoughts?
Model#: 15-b129wm
I started getting a message that it could not find a hard drive on this machine and to install an operating system, thinking the hard drive was fried I got a new hard drive.
This machine does not come with a cd drive or a dvd drive at all. Therefore I put windows 7 ult 64 bit on a thumb drive via .iso.
I am attempting to install windows on it, but in the installation process, I get that message that it requires a cd/dvd drive. so I go to HP drivers for this model, I only see drivers for windows 8 (which is what this laptop came with originally). BUT it does not have any drivers for a cd / dvd drive as this machine did not come with those.
I have seen youtube videos to unplug and replug in the thumb drive into a different usb but this one only has 2 usb ports and this trick does not work.
I am thinking I need to format this 1tb hdd with my main computer as GPT. Then boot from my win7 ult 64bit cd and install windows on this hdd this way.
PS: I did that last step above minus the formatting of the new hdd at the very beginning, and this laptop still won't read it.
What are your thoughts?
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