I have an HP Pavilion DV6 Notebook with 500GB hard drive and preinstalled Windows 7 Home from HP.
I bought a 1 TB WD Blue WD10J31X Hybrid.
First I created a recovery disk (DVD) and a system image to another WD backup drive all using Windows 7 utilities. I then removed the old HD and put in the new Hyrid WD drive.
I restarted my laptop with recovery disk and backup disk plugged in and start restoring from the image file on the back up drive. All seemed OK untill it rebooted and gave an error saying can't start Windows as one of the removable drive(s) unplugged or removed (I haven't removed anything).
I removed the recovery disk and re-boot but no change. It won't recognise the OS. I tried the recovery process from scratch and same thing. I also tried to clone the old system to WD hybrid via using Acronis True Image WD Edition and that didn't work either.
I gave up on image copy and tried to install Windows 7 from scratch and it won't do it. I even tried Windows 10 with no luck. It was saying that it can't install on this disk as it has no bootable sector or something in that effect as I didn't write word to word. It was also saying something about making sure the disk controller was enabled in the BIOS menu. I couldn't find any such option under BIOS menu. Infact the BIOS menu was very limited on what I can do compare to my desktop.
I put back my old drive and all work fine but I really need to make 1TB hybrid to work.
Is it HP Pavilion or is it WD hybrid causing the problem?
Mehmet
I bought a 1 TB WD Blue WD10J31X Hybrid.
First I created a recovery disk (DVD) and a system image to another WD backup drive all using Windows 7 utilities. I then removed the old HD and put in the new Hyrid WD drive.
I restarted my laptop with recovery disk and backup disk plugged in and start restoring from the image file on the back up drive. All seemed OK untill it rebooted and gave an error saying can't start Windows as one of the removable drive(s) unplugged or removed (I haven't removed anything).
I removed the recovery disk and re-boot but no change. It won't recognise the OS. I tried the recovery process from scratch and same thing. I also tried to clone the old system to WD hybrid via using Acronis True Image WD Edition and that didn't work either.
I gave up on image copy and tried to install Windows 7 from scratch and it won't do it. I even tried Windows 10 with no luck. It was saying that it can't install on this disk as it has no bootable sector or something in that effect as I didn't write word to word. It was also saying something about making sure the disk controller was enabled in the BIOS menu. I couldn't find any such option under BIOS menu. Infact the BIOS menu was very limited on what I can do compare to my desktop.
I put back my old drive and all work fine but I really need to make 1TB hybrid to work.
Is it HP Pavilion or is it WD hybrid causing the problem?
Mehmet
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