install not worked for no reason i can figure out

i have a laptop that had windows 7 and worked (an HP Pavilion dv6).
for various reasons i decided to reinstall windows 7 and bought a copy from PC World.
i reinstalled it and it loaded and worked briefly (a few hours) but then wouldn't boot, going to "install repair" and saying it couldn't be fixed (it was trying to fix harddisk).
i thought this was strange as it was a new install but tried again.
and this time the same thing happened but straight away.

what the heck is going on? i feel like slapping bill gates right now! but maybe i should be slapping HP or myself!!!??!

ta

nick

Hi nickunlimited and Welcome to The Forum.

Did you get a disc when bought from HP (highly doubt it!). Do you still have the Recovery Partition that HP most likely loaded? What I'm trying to say is that you are most likely missing some HP drivers. These would be on the repair disc partition. You may have to go back to the HP version so you can start up. Once there go to the HP support page for your machine and download all available drivers and stick them on a disc. You can then run that to install necessary drivers.

Apart from that, a good move on getting a "vanilla" install. You definitely don't want all the unnecessary gumph OEM's throw in to enhance your experience while slowing your machine down to a crawl.

There's also a handy and free (we like free!) utility called Double Driver. This will copy and save all, or a selected list, of the drivers loaded into your machine so you can re-install them later.

Now im worried. I erased the partitions to have one whole hd. So no recovery stuff.

what error are u getting when you try to boot, what exactly happens?

it goes into the repair program and then says its not possible. if u mean specific error the first time i cannot remember and the second time it said registry corrupt in the error info in the repair program.

put the origonal disc back in , boot from disc
when it comes up with INSTALL in the middle of the screen like a firsst time setup,. look at the bottom left corner , it will say repair, clikc this and click next, find the installation (if it finds one ). when u get to the screen where it says things like, system restore , command promt, etc

click command promt
type
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
sfc /scannow
reboot pc

Also, on top of Kaos's advice, you're obviously using another machine to be on here. If you are struggling to find drivers for the laptop, post the full model number and we'll see what we can find out for you.

HTH.

not home till mon day night but will try this. thanks

elmer: will i need to find the drivers too? also cannot find out model number past dv6. think i removed the sticker years ago(again...IDIOT). is there another way to find it?

I'd say there will be a label on the bottom. More than likely a black n silvery thing (technical description!! ). It should be on that.