my laptop

[Reds4978]

ok i have a hp pavilion dv6000 that i brought years ago never used it because i dropped it fresh out the box trying to juggle it with my purse ok now its 2025 and I pull it out after i got the screen fixed turn it on and it says no operating system  found so i put in a windows xp recovery disc and now it says set up did not find any hard disk drives installed in my computer make sure any hard drives are powered on properly and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct set up cannot continue to quit press F3

[BeemerBiker]

Probably had a mechanical drive and the drive was damaged.

You should run diagnostics to see if there are any other problems before spending a lot of money.

Tap the ESC key after powering on. Tap it once a second after you see the LEDs on the keyboard flash. When you see the startup menu, press F2 to run diagnostics.

After running diagnostics, go into the bios and press F9 or whatever function key is used to set defaults.  Make sure the date and time are correct and then press F10 to save and boot.

If the disk fails it can easily be replaced as shown in the video

Any of these SDD that are 2.5 will work.  Probably the 500gb will be closest to your old drive

You should install windows 10 instead of XP.  If you do not want to buy 10 then you will have to put up with a reminder on the screen nagging you to buy it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Tiny 10 may be better if you do not have much memory

There is an operating system called Tiny 10 that might work better than the full blown W10.
Works great. Uses the W10 product key in the BIOS to activate
The official and complete tiny10 and tiny11 list – NTDEV