What were the conditions of storage? Extreme temperatures or dusty or
moist conditions may be at fault here.
Start it up with the case removed and see if the hard drive is turning.
You should be able to hear a noticeable whine, feel the vibration.
You most likely need to replace the CMOS battery as well.



anita wrote:
> Hello..I have a HP pavilione6532 ..it's been in storage for two years..was working fine before this..when i went to start it up

..it said ..operating system not found..I only have 1 recovery cd so I
tried a boot disk but isaid something about a problem with F32 partition

..I pushed the F1 key and it says that there is no primary slave..no
hard drive...we checked all the plugs inside to make sure that they were
attached and they were...I have both windows 98 and 2000 on the
computer..and nothing happens when I try to reload them as it says there
is no operating system...Fdisk won't work because

  there is no hard drive....I was looking at some of the downloads to
help me ...someone said that I may need to reformat the hard drive but

  how do I get tothe part where I can enter the commands ..I can't do
that..what do I do..Help
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