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Haven't really tried since we have no data we need to recover.... Just tried the Win7 iso disc and it offered me repair computer and install win 7 both of which I tried and both of which failed. Guess I just need to wait for the new drive from HP.... Thanks for the help!

Thats not what I said.... or did so I guess I need to get off this now Downlded worked but didn't work or help as all I kept seeing at both the repair and install windows was a simple circling arrow for a very very very long time. How long should I continue to let the non responsive circling...

Well, tried it again and I guess it is downloading... didn't think it was because it said download time as more than 1 day. eek! Now download time so far is only 5 hours.

Tried link but Win7 Iso doesn't download... Looking for other sites but none which are free so far found. :(

Nope, Recovery CD appeared to work but then I got a recovery partition not found error. Additional tries gets me to the same blank desktop with cursor. I can boot with Ubuntu and can see files when I mount the HDD, so I am hoping the HDD is not shot? Tried clicking on chkdsk from within Ubuntu...

New laptop with Win7 pre-installed. No Win7 CD. Laptop HDD came with separate recovery partition. Burnt recovery CD and backed up HDD to seperate USB HDD. Then laptop was dropped. Laptop won't boot past blank win7 desktop(with curser). Tried running HP recovery program from recovery CD but...