Need help fixing friend's laptop.

[darkhunter88]

Go into the Bios, go under the diagnostics tab, and if this feature is there, do the "Hard Disk Self Test"

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[Coolio]

It's going

[Coolio]

Test Status : Replace Hard Disk

Yeah. Okay. D:

[Coolio]

I probably won't be able to replace the HDD anytime soon, so I'll just give it back to him.

[Coolio]

Q-Q-QUAD POST

bump

[Ethan]

Now's your chance to use Google and ask:
Computer hangs when booting from external media

And you say you managed to get to a command prompt? What a waste. That would've fixed it, fdisk /mbr or dskchk or format or whatever. It all would've helped.

[MaroonCacti]

you have
so many
topics
where you need help
its not even funny

[Coolio]

Well, I get a black screen w/ Flashing Underline. If I leave it for a while, I either get Bootmgr is missing or Operating System Not Found.

[Coolio]

If it matters at this point (which is the laptop being basically dead)
The HP sticker on the bottom says:
HP Pavillion dv6700 (It's a 7 instead of a 0, like the case said)
Dv6915nr

Yeah, do with them what you want.

[Ethan]

Now's your chance to use Google and ask:
Computer hangs when booting from external media

And you say you managed to get to a command prompt? What a waste. That would've fixed it, fdisk /mbr or dskchk or format or whatever. It all would've helped.

[David819]

Ethan is computer expert.How does he do it?

[Coolio]

/g/ says HDD is dead.

Not surprising. :l