Ange_68
03-06-2012 07:48 AM (9 days ago)
I am not able to start up my pavilion g7 notebook and when I press F11 to recover from HP Recovery it is not allowing me to and tells me that it cannot detect HDDs on my system.
I have not done anything different on my laptop but the last few times it has displayed an error message prior to booting up telling me there is a issue with my hard drive...... I ignored it because it was working still....

I did not make any recovery disks (thought they came in box with the notebook) and now it wont let me make any because it cannot detect hard drives. Can anyone please help meeee?????
SCTaylor
03-06-2012 08:18 AM (9 days ago)
I suggest powering off PC. Restart PC, and tap the F10 key to get into BIOS. In BIOS, navigate to the diagnostic tab and select Hard Disk Self Test. Test both Hard Disk Drives for failure. Please let me know the results.
Ange_68
03-06-2012 04:10 PM (9 days ago)
I have ran the hard drive test but it will only allow me to carry out a short test. When it gets to 5% of the test it says
"Hard Disk 1 quick (303) " and has "ok" highlighted underneath. When i press enter it returns back to the diagnostics screen again.
SCTaylor
03-07-2012 09:15 AM (8 days ago)
That HDD has gone bad if the test will not complete. Replacing the HDD is what needs to be done.