Installed new hard drive but cant find my recovery disk for hp dv5000

dboatie

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installed a new hard drive in hp dv5000 but cannot find recovery disk. just black screen with blinking cursor is all that appears.

help if possible?

db
 


A new HDD will not have anything on it, OS, Recovery partition, or anything else. Explain what you are trying to do.
 



There is no other way unless you do a new install of the OS.
"Cannot find recoverys disks" insinuates you lost them. As opposed to cannot find recovery partition (HDD)