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New HDD, Operating System Not Found
I have searched the forum and have come across similar issues, but no solution for the specific situation I have.
I have a Sony Vaio VPCEH laptop. Original HDD was a 320 GB SATA Western Digital Scorpio Blue. This hard drive crashed, and would not load Windows, just gave an error message saying to insert repair disc. I made a repair disk and a clean install Windows 7 ISO boot disk. Neither would work.
I purchased a new, blank Seagate 500 GB SATA HDD. (I'm not really too computer-savvy, but it wasn't difficult to remove the old hard drive and insert the new one-also there is only one HD space). Now I am trying to install Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (which came with the computer and I have a product key for). When I power on the computer, I only get the error message "Operating System Not Found". I cannot get into BIOS or any other boot screen.
I briefly put the old hard drive back in (I can at least get to BIOS with it) to make sure the BIOS boot order was correct (optical disk drive is the default first boot option). But with the new hard drive, it sounds like it's trying to read the disk, then I just get "Operating System Not Found". I have tried all F keys (usually F2 gets me to BIOS), delete, enter, escape, ctrl+alt+del, escape, shift+ F10 and I just get a repeating "operating system not found". I downloaded the Windows 7 ISO from Digital River after finding the link on this forum. I burned it to a DVD. I have tried two different disks, and tried it in a working computer and the Windows Install screen comes right up. But then I try it in my laptop, it sounds like it working, and then the error message.
I have read about creating a partition for the Windows install, but how do I do this if I can't get to any boot screen?
I do have access to a functioning computer at work
I would much appreciate any help with this!