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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.
January 17th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
@ Mac,
Could be just a bad connection between the drive and motherboard.
Haven’t done it myself but if the new driver has same size AND connector type, it should work. It should be detected by the laptop BIOS without installing any driver. Should be plug and play.
January 15th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
So turned on the computer today and the DVD drive is not being recognized by the computer again. Looked up under bios and its not listed there either. Options?
January 14th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
So I started up the computer today and lo-and behold the DVD drive started working again with me doing anything. So Im not sure if it would do it again. Im still seriously contemplating updating the HD DVD (toshiba LS-802A) drive to a Blu ray. I found a Sony BC-5500A Blu Ray drive I liked but im not sure if it would be compatible. From the specs i found, it was the same size and same connections. Just dont know if its a plug-n-play and just need to load up the driver. what say you my friend?
January 13th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
@ Mac,
Turn on the laptop and enter the Setup Menu (BIOS menu).
Can you see the DVD drive listed in there?
Here’s also something to try. Find a bootable CD/DVD disc (Windows OS installation disc, HP recovery disc, live Linux OS disc, etc…). Something bootable. Install this disc into the drive and try booting the laptop from it.
If the laptop starts booting from the disc but the DVD drive doesn’t appear in Windows, most likely there is a problem with the Windows installation.
Before you replace the drive I would suggest you figure out if this is hardware or software related problem.
January 13th, 2012 at 9:20 am
I have a recent problem with my DV9260. The computer underwent an automatic update. After the update, the HD DVD drive would not work. It does not appear on “my computer” and its not even listed under the device manager. I conducted a system restore to a point prior to the update with no luck. I went to HP and attempted to d/l the driver but couldnt install because the computer does not recognize the drive. I went to microsoft and utilized their “Fix It” program with no results. To date the computer has undergone numerous unsuccessful attempts at installing the SP 1.1 update. Every attempt at installing the update ends with failure with an error code “643″. I conducted a system check and its stated there was an undisclosed hardware malfunction. I think the drive may have just gone bad and want to replace it with a blu-ray drive instead of the old HD-DVD. Got any help for me or should I just get a hammer?
Mac
January 11th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
@ John,
What do you mean the volume is gone? The sound is gone?
January 11th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
hey. i have had a Big problem with my HP laptop for some time now and my volume has been gone but my laptop works fine & it the same as the laptop showing this web page. have you any idea what could be the matter? & if i switch the hard drive with a brand new hard drive would it make a different’s? please reply and tell me my problem. Thank You…. John.
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:01 pm
@ John,
I explained how to backup data in the following post: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/recover-files-from-broken-laptop/
November 3rd, 2011 at 11:20 am
Hello, my DV9000 motherboard died (infamous power shuts off seconds after turning it on). It’s over 3 years old and time for a new laptop. I need to take the HD out of my dv9000, so thanks for the instructions above. However, I need to backup all the data on that HD once it is removed. What is the easiet way to do that? Put it into an external drive housing? And, if that is the route I go, since it still has the OS on it, can I boot from my old HD when it’s in an external enclosure?
My intent is to backup it up on my external Beyond Micro 1TB drive.
Thanks
October 27th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Thank you.
HD1 is corrupt.
I swapped it with HD2.
I’m going to try to install OS on HD2 or (GULP) reformat HD2 and install whatever OS I have in an effort to get the machine running again.