Solved My Elitebook 8530p wont start up windows

[AddRAM]

If you are still confused after reading the tutorial, about putting the iso image on the usb drive, keep asking for help, we are glad to asisst.

 

[melissalohrmann]

thank you for being polite.as for the other comment as my post said I DO NOT OWN A FLASH STICK AND MY DVD-ROM ON MY 2003 SONY VAIO XP HOME SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING.SO IF I DON'T OWN AND CANt'T AFFORD TO BUY A FLASH DRIVE AND I HAVE NO CD-ROM TO USE IF THERE IS A BETTER OPTION OTHER THAN BORROWING A CD OR EMAILING THE PLACE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE THE DISKS PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT IS INSTEAD OF BEING RUDE TO ME>AND OF COURSE I HAVE TRIED THE HP RECOVERY AS YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED NUMEROUS TIMES ABOUT ME BEING IN A START UP REPAIR LOOP.

 

[AddRAM]

Who is being rude to you ?

I see nothing but people trying to help you.

If you do not have a working dvd drive or a flash drive then you are up a creek.

You could also try installing windows from an external dvd drive.

 

[melissalohrmann]

Who is being rude to you ?

I see nothing but people trying to help you.

If you do not have a working dvd drive or a flash drive then you are up a creek.

You could also try installing windows from an external dvd drive.

No I told you thank you for being nice to me and even hit that scale thing. and now that guy that got smart with me is accusing me of yelling at him when i have never even spoke to him.He was the one being rude to me.Not everyone nowadays has even 5 bucks.I think that I have been polite I'm not a rude person by nature at all I just said something to him about the way he posted to me.I think that i should contact the company for my disc and i didnt divuldge details of my private life to him but i did tell him that i didnt have nor could i afford a flashdrive.I just feel yhat the way he spoke to me was very innappropriate and right after his message you responded very nicely.so thats why i made sure to thank you and hit that scale for you for being understanding.the rest of the message was to that other guy.i dont know if he maeant yelling because my caps lock was om but i guess i had hit the button and i didnt realize it until after i posted.i just didnt think it was a big deal.and volunteer or not he shouldnt speak to people the way he just did me.and as a volunteer i was grateful for all help but he doesnt have to help me if he doesnt want to.i would rather not have help that treats me like an idiot or like im beneath him.but im grateful 4 u being so nice because i saw your offer of help while i was crying due to his response.sorry if you thought i was talking about you

 

[AddRAM]

OK, Thank You for clarifying.

 

[melissalohrmann]

OK, Thank You for clarifying.

your very welcome!!thank you fot being nice

 

[melissalohrmann]

UPDATE:I have Win 7 Disk

I have just recieved a Windows 7 home premium 32bit disk from DocBrown and now that I have this disk I am going to start doing a clean install on my EliteBook.I am going to use the tutorial on it, but any help on programs and hardware and anything else I might need would be much appreciated.Also suggestions on what things to stay away from online so that I wont mess it up once I get it running!Thanks for everyone's help and patience with this technically challenged user.My hope is that very soon with the help of this site that term will no longer apply to me!

 

[gregrocker]

Read over the steps for getting a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

Remember to make your recovery disks first, then you can either save your HP Recovery and Tools partitions or delete them along with all other partitions to create new one(s) for install. This is explained more in depth in the Notes for HP Owners at the end.

Ask back if you have any questions at all.

Pay special attention to how drivers are handled in Win7. If you connect by ethernet cable the chances are about 75% it will start up ready to connect, about 50% for wireless adapter. So for whichever one you use have the driver in your backup so if necessary you can install it to get online quickly. Find those drivers on the HP Support Downloads webpage for your model.

Then do all of your Important and Optional Updates which should provide most of the rest of your drivers, observing the prompts to restart.

 

[melissalohrmann]

Read over the steps for getting a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.

Remember to make your recovery disks first, then you can either save your HP Recovery and Tools partitions or delete them along with all other partitions to create new one(s) for install. This is explained more in depth in the Notes for HP Owners at the end.

Ask back if you have any questions at all.

Pay special attention to how drivers are handled in Win7. If you connect by ethernet cable the chances are about 75% it will start up ready to connect, about 50% for wireless adapter. So for whichever one you use have the driver in your backup so if necessary you can install it to get online quickly. Find those drivers on the HP Support Downloads webpage for your model.

Then do all of your Important and Optional Updates which should provide most of the rest of your drivers, observing the prompts to restart.

doc sent me a disc and a flash drive and a partition wizard.but i am so confused i went through the steps in the clean install but when i tried to recover hp recovery tools it said they were missing.i finally got it up and running and was doing the updates and then it messed up and windows shut down so i went in my files and looked and it hadnt deleted the old remaining windows files so now im trying it all over again from scratch but im not real sure what to do with the partition wizard and where i use it in the process?

 

[DocBrown]

Partition Wizard was only needed if your partitions were messed up on your HD. Sounds like when they upgraded this laptop, the HP recovery was deleted.

 

[gregrocker]

In that case when you get to Steps 6/7 of Clean Install Windows 7 you can delete all partitions, then create and format new one(s) if you have a certain layout in mind. Otherwise once you delete all partitions, just click next and the installer will create the install partition and begin install for you. This gives you a clean slate for install.

 

[AddRAM]

That was very nice of you Doc, excellent

I`m also here M if you need help. The Partition Wizard CD Doc gave you is a very simple tool to use and I use it every time I work on a pc to set up my partitions. No one ever showed me how to use it, but once you learn, it`s so simple. There is a video on the Partition Wizard website that shows you how to use it. But in a nutshell, you simply turn on the pc and drop the cd into the cd/dvd drive. ( you say yours doesn`t work ) please confirm that. After you REBOOT ( restart ) the pc with the disc in the drive, you will come to a screen asking you to boot from the PW cd and that option is already highlighted. If you don`t hit enter, it will then just try to boot to windows. After you hit enter it will run a DOS looking screen for a minute. You will then come to a screen asking you to pick a screen resolution, you simply choose #1 default and it brings you finally to the Partition Wizard screen. Even if you don`t use it you should still learn how to use it. The video is here.

How to Create Partition with partition manager? Partition Wizard Create Partition Video Help

If you don`t want to make any changes to the install partition ( the partition you want to put windows on ) you simply format it and I always set that partition active. You do this by right clicking on the partition and a drop down menu will appear with all the available options.

 

[melissalohrmann]

i am on hp now!!!

With everyones great help I am back up and running but I am having 2 small problems.I have gotten all my drives up and working except for 2.PCI SERIAL PORT AND PCI COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER.I have been to HP website but I can't find them and don't know what they ar or do to look for them somewhere else!Any advice would be much appreciated!I cant wait to check this thread as solved!!Thank all of you for all the time and effort you did to help me get to this point!!And Doc a very special thanks to you as without your extreme thoughtfullness I would have been a sitting duck.You went above and beyond and your passion for teaching and helping people to appreciate technology shows in every thing you do.I am now andwill forever be extremely thankful.To you all that have helped along the way I have clicked your scales and would keepon but the forum told mei had to spread my praise around!!LOL!!Again thank you all.

 

[gregrocker]

Have you run all of your Important and Optional Windows Updates after enabling Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3). There will be several reboots before they're done.

If those drivers are still missing afterwards then I'd install the PC chipset from the HP Support Downloads webpage for your exact model. Then watch performance carefully to see if any features are lacking or performance is not perfect in any way. This may point to a needed driver, hotfix or additional software (like for cam) from the same Downloads page.

Otherwise you can trace the exact make/model device using Hardware Identification, post back for more help, or if you want to install TeamViewer Download with all defaults I will be glad connect and do it for you, even optimize our PC a bit if you want.