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If your hard drive is failing here's a video to help you swap it out...
HP Pavillion DV7 Hard Drive Removal Upgrade - YouTube
This lappy will hold 2 drives, nice to know...
Your welcome, always good to know how things work, an ssd would really speed things up, just plug in and reload windows ... :)
Thanks everyone for the help, I tried it again, running the tests and all, says the memory and disk test both passed, but the diagnostic log says no data, so guessing a new drive is in order.
A hard drive is fairly easy to install. I would say try to get an ssd drive, but since it is really unknown it is cheaper to get a regular hard drive or better yet get a known good hard drive and try that.... then if it works... swap to a ssd drive