My Vaio and "Operating system not found"
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:15 pm
I have a Sony Vaio Laptop that i was running Windows ME on. I was in the middle of playing a game and left the room, and when I returned my cat came running past me and my computer was restarting. When it finished restarting the error read "operating system not found".
This is not the first computer that I have had this problem with, infact it is the third, but the other two were desktops. After the first one I hooked the hard drive up the the second one and it showed that the second partition of the first hard was the only partition on the hard drive. I didn't have another one to try the second computers hard drive on.
I haven't tried using anything other than reinstalling the hard drive and OS on the two desktops, as of yet. But the two computers were also downstairs where the cats were at. I didn't think anything about the cats having done anything until the Laptop when i saw the cat come running out of the room. I think the cat walking on the keyboard did something to erase the hard drive or something. Not sure about it but... they don't work now.
I tried to reinstall the OS and reformat the hard drive and it gave some error about no fixed drive present and automatically restarted. I tried to use the UBCD and got an error that read "Error Getting Hard Disk Paramaters".
I have tried to go into Bios and the auto detect hard drive function doesn't detect anything. I tried to set the parameters of the hard drive based on the disk size I could remember, and nothing. I took the computer apart to try and see if the hard disk parameters were listed on the outer casing of the drive. They weren't. What I did get was that the hard disk was made by Fujitsu, and the info about the drive are as follows:
Model: MHM2100AT ID: HF IN
Part No: CA05429-B59200SN
SER NO: 01084035 Date 2001-03
Rating +5v -0.55A
Rev No: A 0123456789 (with 2 lines running through the 0,1,2, and 3)
CANF25 30 E -5823
Aside from all this I haven't been able to get anything to work on it. Is there a version of UBCD that has a Fujitsu Disk Drive installation program? Has anyone else had the same problem or similar problem with a laptop? Anyone have any suggestions? Because I am open to anything.
This is not the first computer that I have had this problem with, infact it is the third, but the other two were desktops. After the first one I hooked the hard drive up the the second one and it showed that the second partition of the first hard was the only partition on the hard drive. I didn't have another one to try the second computers hard drive on.
I haven't tried using anything other than reinstalling the hard drive and OS on the two desktops, as of yet. But the two computers were also downstairs where the cats were at. I didn't think anything about the cats having done anything until the Laptop when i saw the cat come running out of the room. I think the cat walking on the keyboard did something to erase the hard drive or something. Not sure about it but... they don't work now.
I tried to reinstall the OS and reformat the hard drive and it gave some error about no fixed drive present and automatically restarted. I tried to use the UBCD and got an error that read "Error Getting Hard Disk Paramaters".
I have tried to go into Bios and the auto detect hard drive function doesn't detect anything. I tried to set the parameters of the hard drive based on the disk size I could remember, and nothing. I took the computer apart to try and see if the hard disk parameters were listed on the outer casing of the drive. They weren't. What I did get was that the hard disk was made by Fujitsu, and the info about the drive are as follows:
Model: MHM2100AT ID: HF IN
Part No: CA05429-B59200SN
SER NO: 01084035 Date 2001-03
Rating +5v -0.55A
Rev No: A 0123456789 (with 2 lines running through the 0,1,2, and 3)
CANF25 30 E -5823
Aside from all this I haven't been able to get anything to work on it. Is there a version of UBCD that has a Fujitsu Disk Drive installation program? Has anyone else had the same problem or similar problem with a laptop? Anyone have any suggestions? Because I am open to anything.