How do I remove the hard drive from a HP Pavillion

Can you be more specific with model is it an inspiron ? is it a mini ? HP Pavillion DV7 Hard Drive Removal Upgrade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Qouyng8hQ How to Change A Hard Drive In A HP Laptop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=650mXGa-kDY these might not be your specific laptop but it might give you some insight in how to remove it

Start taking your laptop apart piece by piece and test it after each removed component:
1. Remove the hard drive and test the laptop.
2. Remove the DVD drive and test the laptop.
3. Remove the wireless card and test the laptop.
4. Unplug the display panel from the motherboard/video card and test the laptop.
etc....
Continue taking it apart until you have only three major components connected: motherboard (with video card), processor, and memory. If you still experience the same problem, most likely it's bad motherboard.
By the way, before you start, try reconnecting the memory module. If you have two modules installed, try removing them one by one and test the laptop with each one separately.

Hello,

there is something wrong with either your screen or screen inverter.

If you are not a laptop expert, I would advice that you take the laptop to a repairer that will help you diagnose the main fault so that you can either repair or replace either the inverter or screen.

Good luck.

HP pavillion will not load
if you are able to see the HP logo that tells you that bios is loading but when it gets to the operating system on your hard drive, it can not be located. One of the reasons can be a bad hard drive if it is it needs to be replaced, turn the computer over and check that access covers, one shows you a hard drive logo and it should have 1 or 2 screws, remove those or just loose them up. You may have to stick a tiny flat screwdriver under the cover to pop it off, after you do that remove the screws that hold the hard drive; there should be a plastic or tape tab to pull the hard drive out. Go ahead and pull it out, make sure that the adapter on the hard drive (shiny box) it is properly attached. check the prongs on the computer where the hard drive goes check for dark spots (burn like) if everything looks fine, re insert hard drive (make sure that it makes proper contact) and close the lids turn it on and see if it loads. if it doesn't then you know how to replace a hard drive you just have to have your cds' to load the operating system

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your bettery is getting weak replace it

unscreew the hard drive cover and remove the hardrive and push it back the switch on your laptop.its behaving like that due to thehard drive not been inserted propery.good lucky

That's a very common issue with that model, You will have to reflow the GPU with a heatgun. You can find more info from http://www.msbin.com if needed.

if you turn the computer upside down there will be a plastic entry point that is a bit larger than a cigarette packet. If you are unsure your best option would be to take it to a computer store and buy a laptop hard drive cover that converts your laptop hard drive to usb. "usb2.0 hdd External Box" about $20 remove and insert hard drive to new case about $10
Now you can access your laptop hard drive easily and cheaply from any computer and when finished you can put it back into your laptop

Do you have a usb to SATA connector? If so you can plug the old drive into the USB slot and it will act as a slave so you can pull the contents from the old drive to the new. The adapter is about 25.00 or If it was me I would invest into a pocket USB hard drive case that you can put your old drive into perminatly so you can always have a external hard drive for back up later after yo uhave moved the data over and reformatted it. The case is $25-$40.00.

Joe

This is a known issue from HP. HP found that some notebooks are having problem with the mother board and HP recalled such type of notebooks for free serivce.

If your notebook model is found in the below weblink, you can contact HP for free mail in service.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01300427

Comming to the data in the hard drive. The data is safe and you can backup your entire data in the below process.

You can use this hard drive case and backup the data on any other laptop or desktop either at home, office or any other friends place without opening the system.

You just need to remove the hard drive from the laptop and put the laptop hard drive in the USB hard drive case and then connect it to USB port.

And the case is available in any computer stores near you.