no hard disk found

Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.


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ve0804 <> wrote:

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>Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
>up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
>volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
>I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
>when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
>there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
>the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
>working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
>thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
>I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.

Restart your laptop... look for the message about entering "setup" and
tap the F-key it calls for. Be quick. Probably F2 or F3.

Look for your hard drive in there. If it can't be found, it died.

Hopefully you have a backup of your data on another device? Right?


"ve0804" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
> up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
> volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
> I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
> when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
> there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
> the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
> working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
> thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
> I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.
>
>
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Hi,

Does the drive show in the system BIOS? Can you enter the recovery console
by booting the Vista disk and run a DIR?

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> Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
> up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
> volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
> I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
> when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
> there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
> the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
> working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
> thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
> I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.
>
>
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 23:04:22 +0530, ve0804
<> wrote:

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>Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
>up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
>volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
>I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
>when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
>there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
>the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
>working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
>thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
>I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.

Right click My Computer , properties .

Jim <> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 May 2009 23:04:22 +0530, ve0804
><> wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi, new here. I have a sony vaio laptop that has been working perfectly
>>up until a few days ago. I got a blue screen that said unmountable boot
>>volume. I have a vista restore/repair disk but no sony restore disks.
>>I'm not really sure if mine came with any? I used the vista disk and
>>when i try to repair it it says no hard disk found as the error. Is
>>there a way to get my computer to see the hard disk? I've tried using
>>the command prompt but a lot of things i've tried like chkdsk aren't
>>working or i'm not sure what they mean. If someone knows how to help
>>thank you so much because I have no clue what's going on.
>>I can give more info i'm just not sure what you need.
>
>Right click My Computer , properties .

Re-read the OP's post one more time, moron.

i have a hard segate sata 160 GB hard disk .sometimes computer
didnot found any hard disk. But after restart it found hard disk .i have
also problem when i am going to install windows 98 .Computer didnot show
actual hard disk volume 160 GB. it shows only 21 GB . so please give
me a solution.


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subhankar samanta <> wrote:

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>i have a hard segate sata 160 GB hard disk .sometimes computer
>didnot found any hard disk. But after restart it found hard disk .i have
>also problem when i am going to install windows 98 .Computer didnot show
>actual hard disk volume 160 GB. it shows only 21 GB . so please give
>me a solution.

You may very well have a problem with your hard drive. Download
SEATOOLS from the Seagate site and run it.

As for problems installing Win98... this is a VISTA group.