Problem with my HP dv6000

Is it under warranty?

I would try a cmos reset. It fixed mine.

Warranty is over, but just the fact that something happens to hd is weird.

Yup, the heating problems. It's a ****ty laptop. Id like to back up my data.
Is it possible that BIOS battery is covered with some black thing ?

Yes, most of the cmos battery's have heatshrink around them. Just unplug it for a few minutes.

Wouldnt hurt to start it up with a windows disk and see if it can repair.It could be just a windows problem.Probably not going to be the case but its worth a try.Yes I agree with the DV series being junk.I have a dust collector myself.

Hit F8 on boot and disable the 'Automatic Restart On System Failure' get the code and punch it in, it can be a number of things but I doubt the CMOS battery would fix it.

is there another way to access my files on hard drive ?
i hit F10 on boot (bios) and theres no restart on failure option.
are my hard drives dead ?

is there another way to access my files on hard drive ?
i hit F10 on boot (bios) and theres no restart on failure option.
are my hard drives dead ?

You can always put the HD in an enclosure to retrieve them.That is is you dont have it password protected.

so i just lend my friend's portable hd and put my laptop's hd in somehow, and it works ?

It's F EIGHT not F10. It'll give you some boot options and that's where you change it.

Also there is a BIOs HDD test you can access in BIOs via F10, run the short and extended S.M.A.R.T. test. If it fails obviously you have a bad drive but if it BSODs on boot it's more than likely an OS issue.

*Edit* Also, if you hit F10 and it takes a while to get into the BIOs it's a good indication that your drive is bad, for reference you can take the HDD out and boot to the BIOs and reference that access speed. Abnormal time for BIOs boot is around 5 to 10 seconds or longer.

I read that it should often be cleaned from dust .. and why hd dies ? Because of the heat ?
edit: In bios when i do the detect hard drive test (diagnostics), it fails.
How's that possible .. my hd didnt last for even a month :s

You got a faulty hard drive, it happens. The fail could be due to a READ/VERIFY issue which is corrupt sectors i.e. Power Failure during an installation or defrag. Try your windows recovery discs and try running a repair see if it helps any, give me the Model # off of the bottom of the laptop and I can give you the correct restore disc numbers in case you need to order them.

OP, I got to ask. Is the new HDD a 7200 RPM drive? I upgraded to one in my HP DV2125 and the heat it generated destroyed my chipset (well I think it has to do with the cheap lead based solder HP uses). I sent my board in to have a new NVIDIA chipset resoldered, and the new board went out 2 months later. It wasnt until after that I did some research on the HP DV 2000 and DV6000 series. I'm now looking for a cheap working motherboard on eBay so I can get the laptop up and running again to give to a friend.