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These instructions will help you remove hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard from a HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop. All these components, except the keyboard, can be accessed through the bottom of the laptop.
In the next guide I will explain how to disassemble laptop display panel and remove inverter board with LCD screen.
Do not disassemble your laptop if it’s still covered by the manufacturer’s warranty or you loose the warranty. Are you looking for spare parts for your HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop? Search here.
First of all, remove the battery. Remove screws from the 1st hard drive and memory covers. Remove both covers.
Under the memory cover you will find the wireless card and RTC battery.
In order to remove the hard drive, lift up the right side of the drive assembly (move 1) and then pull it to the right (move2). If you are replacing the hard drive, you’ll have to transfer the caddy and connector to the new drive.
Before you remove the wireless card, you’ll have to disconnect both antenna cables pointed with green arrows. Simply unsnap both antenna cables from the wireless card with your fingers. After that remove two screws securing the wireless card and pull it from the slot by the edges.
Some Pavilion dv9000 laptops have only one hard drive installed. As you can see, in my notebook there is no second hard drive under the cover.
If you would like to install a second hard drive into your notebook, you’ll have to purchase a new 2.5″ SATA hard drive, SATA connector and drive caddy.
I refer to all HP Pavilion dv9000, dv9000, dv9100, dv9200, dv9300, dv9400, dv9500, dv9600 & dv9700 notebooks as the “dv9000″ since adding a hard disk drive (HDD) to all above mentioned notebooks is similar.
In order to remove the CD/DVD drive you’ll have to remove the securing screw (1) and then carefully pull the drive from the laptop.
KEYBOARD REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS
Remove six green screws securing the keyboard bezel and one red screw securing the keyboard.
Carefully start removing the keyboard bezel with a small flathead screwdriver.
Be very carefull, the bezel is attached to the motherboard with a flat ribbon cable. The cable location is pointed by the green arrow. Do not disconnect this cable. Simply place the bezel as it shown on the picture below.
Remove three screws securing the laptop keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard. Be carefull, it’s connected to the motherboard.
In order to release the keyboard cable, you’ll have to unlock the connector as it shown on the picture above.
1. Slide the connector lock to the direction shown by two green arrows with your fingernails.
2. Pull the keyboard cable from the connector.
Now you can remove and replace the keyboard with a new one.
In the next guide I explain how to replace broken dispaly hinge in HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop.
September 5th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
raj,
Just in case, connect the hard drive back to the controller #1, boot from the USB stick and take a look at the HDD. Can you see the hard drive (from OS installed on flash drive) when it’s connected to the controller #1?
I’m thinking maybe it’s still a bad hard drive. You just cannot boot from it but you can see the content when booted from a flash drive.
Did you try another hard drive connected to the controller #1 just in case?
August 31st, 2010 at 7:18 am
Hi,
I have a similar problem as ellyn (#215). BIOS did not detect a hard disk in drive1 during boot up. I initially thought that the hard disk went bad. I took it from drive1 and placed it in drive2. I used a bootable USB and found that the hard disk was pretty good. Nothing wrong with it. It was the disk controller #1. But the problem now is that the system would not boot from drive2. I can go into BIOS setup and do diagnostics on the “Secondary Hard Disk”, but it wouldn’t boot from it. Is there a solution? I’m thinking of using a USB stick and a GRUB loader to chain load the OS. Haven’t tried yet. But it would be nice to boot directly from the hard disk. Any ideas?
On a side note, I’m quite disappointed with my HP DV9820US laptop. It’s 2 years old now, and the DVD drive does not work, volume control panel stopped working, and I had to replace a broken left hinge (thanks to instructions here).
August 4th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Hello,
I have a little problems with my laptop, each time I move (up & down) the screen of my computer when it is on I hear the noise of squeaking through my enclosure. Could you tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you.
Best regards
Erik
July 13th, 2010 at 8:10 am
I replaced my hard drive and used the system recovery discs and it keeps telling me I have a corrupt file, mind you I get a differnt response of how it tells me each time I do a recovery.
I like my computer and would hate to just bag it. Any suggestions?
July 4th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
hi
i have a hp pavillion dv 9000, it has 2 disk drives, one of them ,the bootable one is broken, can I change it with the other one? I tried to install the windows on the other one, it worked, but the computer doesn’t see this drive when booting. What should I do? Thanks
June 19th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Hi, I have lap top hp pavilion 9000.I problem with my laptop, if i press the power buttom my lap top can not log into the windows. i read on screen says “A disk read error occurred press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart” i already did it many times but still can not log in and my lap top asks me the same thing to press ctrl + Alt + del. what do you think about that? do you think the problem is on my hard drive…? what should i do. thanks…
May 21st, 2010 at 7:27 am
Lou,
Plug the enclosure again. Windows will detect the drive and run file scan. Do not cancel this scan, let Windows to scan all files on the hard drive.
After it’s done, go to My Computer and take a look at the detected drives (partitions).
May 21st, 2010 at 6:38 am
Hi … the two drive letters with only one hd … mean that it was/is partitioned.
the 9gb drive will be a partition that was made to hold the recovery information.
for your new drive to properly replace the old one you will need to patrition it.
May 20th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I removed the hard drive as shown. (Trying to recover data). Mounted it in a SATA to USB encloser and the explorer window indicates it’s the recovery 9 gig Drive. My HP Pavillion dv9000 had a 80 gig drive and a 9 gig recovery drive. The other Hard Drive bay was empty. What’s up? where is the 80 gig Hard Drive?
May 19th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Sure you can.