MajorMajorMajor said:
Wait, forgot to add, now when it boots up, it does the blue/green welcome screen then sits at a black screen for a good 3 minutes before it finally shows the home screen.
My roommate says I should just reformat.
Sounds like a weird case of hdd failure which happened to my hdd as well.I had a 400 gb hdd which lost the OS one day. I formatted it and used it as a backup data drive and its been fine ever since. I would just go ahead and use the new hd just to be safe. You called tech support and all they said was that you killed it? Wow thanks HP, what would I have done without you?