Replaced hdd and system won't boot up.

[Loucough]

I replaced my hard drive in my hp dv7 laptop and went through the recovery process and it will not boot up. When I turn on it freezes up at the hp screen.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[MikeTechMan]

Hello,

1. I would suggest taking it to a computer shop and having them take a look at it or run system diagnostic.

2. Your new hard drive could be bad or defective, might have gone out or something got way to hot inside there and got toasted.

3. You need to reinstall diffrent hard drive or try to remove all, you should try boot laptop with out any hard drive ?

4. Disconnect your hard drive see if no longer freezes during system boot?

I'm afraid, this has happened to me a few times.

[Loucough]

I can get into the bios setup. I ran the hard drive test and everything checked out.

I also reran the recovery process and it completed the installation. Still can't get passed hp screen.

If the new hard drive is shot would I be able to complete processes?