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I recently had to fix an HP with the same problem. It looked like it restored but it didnt. I talked
to the idiots in India and they said it was the Recovery CD I was using. I told them there was no cd
and I was using the recovery image that was located on the recovery partition of their hard drive.
They told me that the image was probably corrupt and they sent me the cds for free (they wanted to
charge $35 or so).

I tried the cds and the same thing happened. I cloned the hard drive and tried to recover but it was
a no go. I tried to recover using the new cds and a new hard drive and it still didnt work. I called
HP India again and TOLD them it had to be the motherboard. They had me send it to them (still under
warranty) and it was the motherboard. Good luck dealing with these morons. They must go to the same
school as Dell support.

Tony

ot sti work. On 6 May 2007 14:20:53 -0700, wrote:

>Customer has an HP Pavillion a730n
>
>Computer would hang on the Windows XP Home boot screen.
>Got into safe mode and saved his documents to an external drive.
>Tried a system restore from XP from a restore point several days, then
>weeks back to no avail.
>(System Restore Complete) but same indication of locking on XP home
>Boot screen.
>Since I have his data, I run a system recovery from F10 during boot
>up.
>It loads, I follow the steps and after I receive, "System Recovery
>completes. Click OK to Reboot into user partition.", The machine
>reboots run through to the XP logo as if it were properly booting,
>then appears a black screen with a blinking cursor. Nothing happens
> I read where HP states that it may take several hours to recover the
>OS.
>So I wait.36 hours, (had a party to attend). Still nothing.
>I have repeated the process 4 times with the same results.
>I have had particularly bad luck with HP Restore disks that I had
>ordered in the past.
>Always ending up having customer purchase new OS and I install and I
>create image of the install for safe keeping.
>
>Any advice other than trying Recovery CD would be appreciated.
>
>FreqSyn

>> I tried the cds and the same thing happened. I cloned the hard drive and tried to recover but it was
>> a no go. I tried to recover using the new cds and a new hard drive and it still didnt work. I called
>> HP India again and TOLD them it had to be the motherboard. They had me send it to them (still under
>> warranty) and it was the motherboard. Good luck dealing with these morons. They must go to the same
>> school as Dell support.
>
>
> Do you have any reason to believe that it isn't the same call center?

No. You are probably right. Dell, HP, AOL. All terrible. Useless, hard to understand, slow as all
hell. They need to read their instructions books faster. There is nothing like having a live chat
with these guys and waiting 6 minutes for a responsse.