Hard hp 8510p can't find the hdd

SOURCE: HP 8510p - when turned

can you hook an external monitor up to it to see what its doing?

SOURCE: Is there a wireless hardswitch somewhere on HP Compaq 8510p

Yes there is a wireless hardswitch on this machine it is 2 to the right of the power button once pressed on the bottom left of the machine an led should light up so you know its activated

Testimonial: "Thanks for the assistance, unfortunatley i'm using an enterprised gov't FCDCC image and i guess they had the factory disable that feature on laptop"

SOURCE: Is there a wireless hardswitch somewhere on HP Compaq 8510p

There is a wireless button the computer..

Its couple of inches beside the power key...


or the place where we have the HP logo...down below that there would be wireless Button/LED

Hope this works

Regards
KEN

SOURCE: MY hp notebook 8510p does

Change your BIOS sata to "disable" and then save the changes. Your harddrive will now work and be found

SOURCE: power-on password on hp 8510p

Power On Password & Hard Disk Password
With your next laptop you should protect it with a Power On Password AND put a password on your hard disk. This will stop anyone from using your laptop and if they move the hard disk from your laptop to another laptop they cannot access the data on your hard disk with the hard disk password.
BUT you need to write down or remember these passwords; if you lose or forget them you cannot gain access to your laptop.
There are no backdoor passwords to remove these passwords.
To set up or change these passwords, go to the BIOS configuration - then security configuration. http://techtips.salon.com/reset-hp-laptop-bios-password-1476.html