https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213372#M43947 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>That's bad advice. First you should always check the drive using a different machine to rule out the possibility of controller failure/driver issues.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:46:31 GMT mike_coreit 2011-04-18T23:46:31Z https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213370#M43945 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hi guys firstly my laptop was running realy well untill i resized the partitions it crashed then said that "no operating system can be found"&nbsp; so i decided to reinstall win7 only to find it cant see any hard drive to install onto....i suspect this is a driver problem but have tried the ones from the download section here to no avail my system is a <STRONG>VGN NS20E</STRONG> with no upgrades other than the os, this has me at my witts end and could do with a pointer or two before my sanity leaves me....<STRONG style="text-decoration: underline; ">HELP!!</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:34:49 GMT https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213370#M43945 gorconx 2011-04-17T15:34:49Z https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213371#M43946 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">It sounds like a Hard Drive may be damaged.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">When you turn the Vaio on, do you see the Vaio logo before the Vaio tries to load?<BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">If yes, press and hold F2 before this screen disappears and the BIOS screen should show on-screen.&nbsp; Check in the BIOS screens to see if the Hard Drive is recognised by the BIOS.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">If it is not recognised, then your Hard Drive is faulty</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt; "> and will need replacement.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt; "><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.de/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:27:43 GMT https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213371#M43946 Blencogo 2011-04-17T16:27:43Z https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213372#M43947 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>That's bad advice. First you should always check the drive using a different machine to rule out the possibility of controller failure/driver issues.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:46:31 GMT https://community.sony.de/t5/pcs-accessories/my-hdd-cant-be-seen-during-a-clean-install-help/m-p/213372#M43947 mike_coreit 2011-04-18T23:46:31Z