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> Hi,
> My laptop is a HP Pavilion DV5 1135.
> Unfortunately for me, when i access the BIOS Setup, there is no
> ADVANCED option in the menu so the link has been of little help.
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If the laptop is currently under warrantee you might consider getting it
fixed through HP.
It seems this Err1Err3 occurs a lot on HPs although I see a few Dells and
few other brands also have the problem. I think I may have run into
Err1Err3. It doesn't seem to indicate complete hard drive failure.
According to one person who has this problem he put the hard drive in an
external enclosure and was able to access the hard drive on another computer
.. I may have run into this problem at one time but the details are sketchy
as I can't recall exactly what happened or even that it did happen. It
could be some simple as missing or corrupted boot information (partition,
sector or file) needed to boot.
You might try Diagnostics in the BIOS and running Primary Hard Disk Self
Test. It's a non destructive test so it doesn't overwrite anything, I
tried it on my HP laptop.
Also try removing all other media and devices from the laptop. USB flash
drives, memory cards from the multi-card reader, external USB floppy drive,
CD, DVD, mouse, bluetooth dongle, etc. and try booting up.
You might want to get another hard drive in any case... speaking of which,
also buy an external enclosure for the current drive in the laptop. Run a
Windows recovery on the new drive to install Windows on it and see if you
can access your old hard drive. If you can access the old drive, make back
up copies of important file to your new drive. The new drive should get you
up and running and you might be able to use the old one for backups if it
doesn't fail completely.
Another possibility is the hard drive controller or the connection between
the controller and the hard drive might be bad, but you should be able to
determine this with the new drive. If you run into the same problem with
the new drive after install or you can't install on the new drive then the
problem lies with the motherboard in the laptop. In which case you should
talk with HP about it. As for the new drive, put it in the external
enclosure and use it as a backup drive, if you ever get the laptop fixed.
I would recommend booting up with Windows DVD and running repair to fix the
Master Boot Record (MBR) but it didn't seem to work for the person who tried
it on their machine according to their post. I would give this a try if you
don't want to buy a new hard drive, you can't or don't want to send it back
to HP but the hard drive tests OK.
Otherwise run recovery install.
Linear Mode
