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Right, I have already tried going down the route of changing boot priorities, and set them to optical drive, external drive then internal hard disk. I have also tried putting the Vista files i have on a flash drive and booting from that to no avail. I have a set of 3 recovery disks, although when i have tried to do a full restore through the viao options i get an "error 86" as soon as i click start. If i went out today and bought brand new version of windows, would it completly sort the problem?

Hi, My computer recently stopped working, constant freezing etc. I decided to try a fresh install however somewhere in the process something went wrong. I have managed to launch system recovery options and am now on the screen asking to loads drivers for my hard disks. It also shows i have no operating systems installed, which would make sense as in my haste to get everything sorted i completed wiped the drive (through Vaio options on start up) I have an original Vista disk, however when i boot the computer up i get black screen with dialogue "operating system not found, press any key to continue" even though the Vista disk is in the drive. The only details i have is the make and model of my laptop: Sony Vaio - Model: VGNFW11E Sorry to be so vague, I'm just hoping this is a hard drive driver issue (if there is such a thing?) Any help would be greatly appreciated.