Hi there…...

Well, I seem to have a failing drive on my TR3A (Toshiba 40gb) and, after seeing posts on this site, I bought a new mk6006gah to replace it.  Unfortunately I never made my recovery disks - a couple of months ago when I finally decided to do it I found that I couldn’t.  Everytime I try to make a CD of any kind I get a vague error that the process failed.  I suspected that it is because my D partition is going corrupt.

Anyhow…........

When I put the new drive in I absolutely cannot boot from a bootable XP install disk nor can I boot from a floppy.  I simply get an error OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND regardless of the boot order or the media.

Does anyone know why I can’t boot from a bootable CD?  Do I HAVE to have recovery disks?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Kimberly

Hey valentine,

have you ever entered the BIOS of your TR? Press F2 while VAIO-logo shows up at boottime. There you have to check if your HDD is installed correct. It means BIOS detects right size and manufacturer.

AND I think you have to change the list of devices at your bootsequence. No. 1 must be CD-ROM. After starting XP-installation you can change the bootsequence back to HDD, so your TR will start a little faster.

Keep me up-to-date.

DJ
EDIT: I read you already changed the boot order… Already tried to boot that XP-disk at another computer?

Yep, did all that.  Changed the boot order to the CD as primary and still got the same OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND error.  Even hooked up a USB floppy and tried booting that way with the same results.  BIOS shows all hardware correctly - I just don’t understand why this is happening and what I am missing.

Thanks!

Kimberly

I dont think booting from a USB device is possible on the TR (so smart of Sony!!!). When my hdd crashed I was hoping to connect an external USB drive and use that while I got my internal hdd however I was unable to do that because of which I was without a computer for a week.

Regarding that XP disk, try doing what DJ suggested i.e. try booting from it on another system. If it doesnt work there as well it’s definitely the disk and if it works fine, then may be the TR’s optical drive is having difficulty reading it or parts of it.

valentine was there a solution on this in the end? it sounds scarily like the problem i’m having right now