OS Wont Load Help!

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crzyldy35

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I have a Sony Vaio NW-240F laptop. I have tried everything and it wont load the OS. I was using it and it just went into shut down mode on its on. I restarted it and I see the vaio logo, then a black screen with a flashing line in the top left corner. Thats it. I went into the bios and it shows the hard drive has 320GB. I used the F10 button to run the diagnostics and also used the fix any errors box but it didnt not show any problems. I then did a complete system restore with no problems or hang ups during the install. It then reboots and back to the same black screen with flashing little line. The F8 button does not work. When I first turn it on, the power, battery & HD light all come on. The HD light flashes till the logo comes on, then nothing. It also flashes when I am running diagnostics or doing the install and I can hear it running with no strange noises. I have also reseated the hard drive and the memory. Does anybody know what else I can do? I really need my laptop for school. Thanks!
 
do you have another Hard drive that you can try in it? Or conversly, a SATA USB adapter that you could test the drive?

It may be a failed hard drive.
 
The only laptop drive I have is from an Acer. Would that work just to test the hard drive? Not very knowledgeable but learning more as I go. LOL
 
Don't do anything yet, remove the existing hard drive and try booting up and see if you get the operating system not found message. This tells us the drive is bad. Most of the time, a bad hard drive won't allow a machine to boot past the oem logo hence why you get a black screen with blinking cursor.
 
"Don't do anything yet, remove the existing hard drive and try booting up and see if you get the operating system not found message. This tells us the drive is bad. Most of the time, a bad hard drive won't allow a machine to boot past the oem logo hence why you get a black screen with blinking cursor."

I removed the hard drive & got the operating system not found. I also took my hard drive to a computer store that hooked it up to their machine & were able to access it with no problem.
 
Then most likely you have errors on the hard drive that need to be fixed in order for it to boot. What brand of hard drive is it?
 
Remove power cable and battery. Hold down power button for 30 secs. Replace battery and power cable and try again.
 
Thanks for everyones help. :) I put another hardrive in my laptop and made a repair disc. With it, I was able to get into command prompt. I told it to fix the boot and mbr (praying I did not make the problem worse) and upon reboot it finished installing my Windows programs. I guess I was missing or had a corrupt boot file. Not sure but either way my laptop is running great again. :)
 
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