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.

I went and tried again with the DVD and no luck, so guess I'll be getting a drive and try that, ssd would be nice, I'll have to look :) thanks!

Oh thank you very much for the video :D it looks simple enough for even me to do. I've not had a chance to try to make another DVD yet, but this is great to have in case that doesn't work. Great to...

Yeah I guess so, I was just hoping it was a fixable mess up on my part, but not a hard drive failure :(

I did not notice it had the product key on the back :o thanks, and yes I used a dvd, but I'll try again however, crosses fingers it does install.

That's true it was running hot and slow, I guess I've never had one just go out like this before at that specific time.

I guess I didn't word it right and catch that :( I do keep the fans clean, and I'll check it if I actually get it installed. Thanks!

How it can be working, then not stuns me. Also my laptop came with Windows 7 Home premium, I had done the free upgrade to 10.
I can try this, I had came across the mediacreationtool.exe and I have...

I can give this a try and see what happens, I just can't figure out how it was working, then using windows reset, now it's gone. Thanks!

My laptop (HP Pavilion dv7) has been running hot and it's been slow, someone suggested using the reset tool in the new WIndows 10, I got all my things off it and went ahead and starting it. I did the...