My wife has a G60 laptop which has decided today not to boot up at all. I have tried the vista boot up disk, running in safe mode, recovery, and restore, none of these will fire it up. No software has been loaded recently.

The fan runs, the disk runs, the hard drive does not appear to run. I have carried out a Hard drive test it says ok.

Tried with battery out no change.
Has anyone any ideas?
Thanks
JC

Pull the HDD out of machine (being extremely careful) making sure you discharge ESD by touching metal frame of laptop once you remove the two screws and pull it out holding the plastic end cap to start with. Then touch the metal to even polarity. Make sure your not on carpet, then after pulling the HDD out. Put it back in. This is just reseating the Drive. Be sure to check the pins on the end to make sure none are bent or broken. If it is under warranty and has a label accross access screws, never mind this. After you have reseated the HDD, all looks okay and screws are back in. Boot into CMOS using the "delete, F2, F1 button, what ever is displayed on screen on intial boot.

Once in CMOS, tab over to BOOT and make sure CD Drive is 1st, HDD is 2cd, USB is 3rd. Then tab to save and exit. (on some hit the F10 and it will do the same)

I do not know what HP laptop you have but here is a website that might also help listed below:

forums.cnet.com/5208-7587_102-0.html?threadID=308296]HP dv2915nr SATA

Goodluck,
Jay

Thanks Jay, I'll try that at the weekend.