Resolved Win 7 won't load

My friend has a Win 7, HP Pavilion DV9000 laptop, upgraded from XP. AMD 64, 2 gb RAM. It has run fine for a long time. DVD broke so it's not even in the tray...he used an external usb dvd.
Laptop now won't load to Windows screen.

Boots up and I went to f8 page. Tried to enter Safe Mode and every other option on that page with nothing. It always goes to Windows Error Recovery page. I click on the Launch Startup Repair option and it comes back
Page fault in nonpaged area Stop: (0x00000050, 0x88CC0000, 0x00000000, 0x8A894B13, 0x00000000)

Made a repair disk on a flashdrive and tried to boot from that. It flashed several times but no boot other than above.

When booting I can Escape which brings up small boot option window with
2) CD/DVD
3) Notebook hdd
Enter settings

I enter settings. Under boot options there it only shows
CD enabled
Floppy enabled
Internal Network disabled

In Bios settings I ran Primary Hard Disk Self Test. It ran with no results and laptop turned off.

I vacuumed out the fan and vents as well as I could. It's obviously an old machine.

 

Sounds like some Hardware is/has failed. Can you remove the HDD and slave it see if you can run sfc /scannow.
You say the DVD drive is not working - can you disconnect it?
How is the RAM?

 

Actually was only reading one RAM. I reseated several times and it sees both now. Retried all of the other options, safe mode, etc after reseating. Still no go.
Dvd is gone. The bay is empty.
I can take the hdd out. I have a universal adapter to plug it into another comp with a usb cable. Making it an external hdd. Possible to run sfc on it that way?

 

Yes. Use cmd prompt and Admin rights.

 

Hooked up hdd with Sabrent usb adapter to my comp. Mine keeps popping up a message that drive E needs to be formatted. And it's not visible in my Computer.
HDD is dead?

 

Think it is kaput. HDD was screeching and stopping and starting. I'm shutting her down. Thanks!