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Either the hard drive is bad and needs to be replaced, or the operating system has corrupted and simply needs to be re-installed. HP's usually have a DFS test in the BIOS menu to see if your hard drive is faulty.
This sounds interesting. Are you ordering the part from HP? If so, they should be able to provide the part number. Otherwise, you will have to get hold of a repair manual- they have the parts lists. Here is a phone number for HP Support: 800-HP invent.
Hard drives are easy to replace, they are located in a separate compartment. Depending upon the model of your laptop, it could be located on the bottom or on the front or left or right hand side of the laptop. The hard drive may have an adapter connector that fits over the 44 data pins on the hard drive.
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After you install a new hard drive, you need to format the hard drive and install Windows on the hard drive plus the device drivers of the devices that are installed on the laptop eg. video, audio, modem, LAN and wireless etc.
When your computer failed to boot from the disk-drive, it tried to connect to a network-accessible "boot-server" via the Ethernet adapter.
However, if there's no cable connected to the computer's Ethernet port, you will get the "check the cable" error-message.
So, your real problem is "invalid partition table", which means that the very first record on the disk-drive is either missing or corrupt.
That first record contains the "partition table", which lists the size of the hard-drive, and the size of each partition (usually only one) on the hard-drive.
So, you'll need to buy an adapter that has a USB-plug on one end, and a connector for your "SATA" or "IDE" hard-drive at the other end.
Remove the hard-drive from your computer, attach it to the connector, and plug-in the USB connector to a USB port on another computer, and then use software to delete and then reconstruct the partition table.
Or, the hard-drive is failing, and must be replaced (maybe under warranty???).
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