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Hi everyone,
My friend has a HP Pavilion Dv9000 laptop that has a hard drive issue. The laptop completely stopped working on him and he gave it to me to fix. I tested the hard drive using SeaTools and it came back with errors so I replaced the hard drive with a new Western Digital 160GB. (The original drive was a Fugitsu 120Gb). I did a fresh install of Windows 7 32bit and completed all windows updates and driver updates from HP's website. Everything seemed to be working flawlessly while I had it. However, he started getting an error message when it booted up saying something about "a new hardware or software change...do you want to start windows normally?." I haven't been able to get it to do this error message since he gave it back to me or I would have described it a little better. In event viewer there is an error log saying that:
"the driver has detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1"
So this one is a little beyond me....should I run a check on this hard disk as well or is the controller on the motherboard possibly going bad and thats why the error messages are not coming up all the time or something else entirely?
Thanks!
My friend has a HP Pavilion Dv9000 laptop that has a hard drive issue. The laptop completely stopped working on him and he gave it to me to fix. I tested the hard drive using SeaTools and it came back with errors so I replaced the hard drive with a new Western Digital 160GB. (The original drive was a Fugitsu 120Gb). I did a fresh install of Windows 7 32bit and completed all windows updates and driver updates from HP's website. Everything seemed to be working flawlessly while I had it. However, he started getting an error message when it booted up saying something about "a new hardware or software change...do you want to start windows normally?." I haven't been able to get it to do this error message since he gave it back to me or I would have described it a little better. In event viewer there is an error log saying that:
"the driver has detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1"
So this one is a little beyond me....should I run a check on this hard disk as well or is the controller on the motherboard possibly going bad and thats why the error messages are not coming up all the time or something else entirely?
Thanks!