HP Pavillion dv7-6b56nr "[205] UIA Write FAILed 3 times !!!"

My mother's Laptop starting running "slow".
She didn't tell me and start running it in Safe Mode with Networking all the time to get it online.
Then it would not boot into Windows at all.
She brings it to me.
HDD tests come back 100% no errors.
I use Recovery Manager to reinstall from the Recovery partition.
Everything seems to be fine until I press continue to reboot into Windows to install after recovery has built the partition (AFAIK that is what is happening at that point).
After Windows loads up, the Recovery Manager pops up right away and states "Restoration Incomplete".
Clicking on Details brings up a CTOERROR.flg document that states: "[205] UIA Write FAILed 3 times !!!".
At this point I am confused. The recovery software is malfunctioning, the HDD is bad, or maybe a combination of both. I have looked for the Recovery disks on the HP Software and Driver Support site and after entering all the information asked for I get nowhere with no option to dowload OR purchase (which I would happily do). I am going to try a clean install with an old Windows 7 disk/key and see if that works.  Any additional support would be great.
Thanks,

Its solution is quite simple.
For solving this problem,you need a windows 7 or 8 dvd(or by a bootable pendrive with  win7,8).for complete restoration you have to follow the steps
Step1:insert win7/8 dvd and restart your pc.Enter the boot menu and select cd/dvd option to boot from dvd(for bootable pendrive,select that option).
Step2:After windows have loaded the windows files,click on install win7/8.
Step3:select custom installation
Step4:Now you will get a window with your harddisk partions.Click on Advanced option in the bottom of the table showing partition list.
Step5: Delete all partions for obtaining a single drive.
Step6:After deleting all drives,you will get a single drive showing your harddisk size.Click on that drive and then select 'new' from bottom options.
Step7:Then windows will show a warnig.Click on 'YES'.And dont make any change to partion size and proceed.
Step8:After doing this you will get a 100mb system reseved memory and rest of your harddisk size as a drive.Then close the installation window.Restart you pc with windows 7/8 recovery disk.And do the same procedure you done early.Then the installation will complete without any errors.And you can have the OS as per the installation media have..
good luck.. 
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