Drive hard question about laptop

I have a laptop HP Pavilion, model dv6885se, now it's going on 4 years. The dv6885se has been working flawlessly for the full time, but I've noticed lately strange questions... seems to hang occasionally. I think the hard drive is out, but all controls said no, but I want to replace the hard drive. I bought a SATA device and restored my drive hard (via Norton ghost 15) to the new SATA drive, but he could not start... BIOS or? Maybe the question, don't know. So I want to return to a player that works (ATA or IDE) I think... tried to find hard drives over the internet, but it seems that nobody produces devices more since everyone is going to the SATA drives. Can someone help me find a new ATA IDE drive?

+ 1 on the Shhh - response

If it's a desktop computer, where you have little room for creativity (and cards), I can see where you might have able to clone a HDD IDE to SATA drive, then replace IDE SATA.  But with a laptop?

You mention it is in Vista, so also, makes no sense.  IDE has been eliminated well before Vista laptop, if I remember.

I googled HP dv6885se.  This unit has two bays for HARD drives.  I doubt that either one is IDE, but I wonder if your original problems may have something to do with the confusion on who was the boot drive?  Physical replacement or cloning that bad?

This site Web Cnet sez the primary drive is SATA.  I didn't find this basic bit of info on the HP support site...

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