From the story provided I'd try a new hard disk and CDROM drive.
Bob
hi, having problems with my pavilion zv 5000 it wont boot up getting the dreaded disc read error message have tried putting my supplied recovery disc but it wont read it fully,it starts to then it just shuts down . i have removed the battery and hard drive then put disc in and it takes the loading files but when i put the hard drive back in it goes back to the original message all i want to do is reboot the machine can anyone help? hp pavilion zv5000 laptop hard drive is 60gb part number mk6025gas.
p.s it does not have a floppy drive so tried to put in a disc with the 98 me boot up files but again it wont read

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