Serega
02-24-2012 01:10 PM (20 days ago)
I have the HP Pavilion g7 Laptop and lately I am not able to boot into the Operating System. All I see is that the cursor keeps on blinking on the top left corner of the screen after seeing the "HP" logo (during POST) when booting up the system.

I tried all of the options in Startup Menu (Hit Esc when the system Power botton is just pressed). I also tried all of the "System Recovery" option (including formating the drive and restoring to original settings (as when we bought it from the store), and during the recovery process, the screen displays just fine, however as soon it askes to press the "Finish" button and it states that it will reboot the system, at that point, the system shuts down and then powers on again - and at that point, I am again stuck at the blinking cursor and nothing happens (left the system like that for hours, and it just sitts there at the blinking cursor).

I have also tried botting from a Bootable DVD and the screen works just fine, and that makes me think that it might be a Hard Drive issue where some of the Hard Drive Sectors are bad and the system does not find the boot loader, or something along those lines.

Has anyone seen this type of issue?

Greatly appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,
Serega