HP Pavilion 520 W Clean Install Win XP

[Gt3guy5137]

Hey, I have a Few Questions i will try to give more answers later
I Trying to work on friends computer who has and HP Pavilion 520w 1.2 Cely nothing special they lost there restore disc so i thought Fdisk and format the install goes great no problems at all just when i go to install stuff later all i get is corrupt errors and programs don't seem to install get stuck in a way but don't show up as failed or what ever the term is i'm wondering if i am screwing up somewhere i have installed and built and repaired computers since the late 90's now i used to mess with alot of the older stuff but have yet to run into as many problems as i have with this HP i've had better luck with gateway and compaq well if anyone has any advice or needs more info please let me know i just got everything finished and it all went downhill from there.


Please Help ????



p.s. Trying to Install windows XP Pro Not Home
Also Everything is still standard as what was issued back from HP
No Upgrades done so if anyone needs to look up HP Website.

[ddka]

HP, Compaq, Etc use proprietary systems - I would first verify you have the correct drivers for the system. Go to the website for the manufacturer of the system for drivers

[Gt3guy5137]

Yes i have all The Needed Drivers for the HP Downloaded them and installed the required ones needed.......

I Just Did a Bios Update so we will see if maybe that fixes the problem it fixed the problem when i did this on one of my gateways i have was given to me by an uncle that was fully virused up but did a full clean will just have to see what happends
still would like to see if anyone as any advice or experiance with this type of Dealings let me know. thanks again.

[Gt3guy5137]

Hey Actually got it working great now but if anyone has similer problems and still wants to talk about use this thread thanks for everyones time.

[Swamprosy]

I would like to use this thread, for I'm having an extremly hard time trying to get my hp zt1135 notebook up and running again. just a little over a year old the notebook came pre-installed with win xp home edition. some disguised mail spread the ripper virus, a teekids virus and a trojan through the system as well as on my hp desktop running win98-which is now up and running ok.
I cleaned it up using mcafee but it didn't work for the xp.
after closing it down then re-booting next day it asked that I type in the command enterpter--not sure what it was, and being a dummy, not looking it up, I just kept typing in different things.
next thing I know the error message, press h to retry hd or press any other key for other options. nothing worked, but i can go into the bios, but not safe mode. I have no install disk, only the oem recovery---which refuses to work---it will not install but stops at some point saying the process failed. for the longest time I could get no prompts, but now again I can get a c prompt. Tthere is also a setup, but it wants to set up win 3.1 of all things.
I do have a new hard drive, but I truly need the data from this one if there's any way possible.
Is there anyone out there who can advise me on this matter?
I contacted HP and MS, but both said the hard drive is bad, I do not believe this, for there is still quiet a bit of stuff showing when I type in dir---could anyone use this info to help this lady of 67 who would forevermore be grateful? Thanks much, Swamprosy