Operating System Not Found.... Have I lost my C:Drive?? :(

[MinxyMoore]

Hi, please may someone give me some advice? My Vaio has suddenly crashed. It states "Operating System Not Found" I have been through the BIOS startup and unfortunately, it states Hard Disk Drive: None. Does this mean I have absolutely no hope of recovering my C Drive documents?

Many thanks in advance

[Blencogo]

It certainly looks like your hard drive has broken.

Depending on the value of the data on your drive, you could either contact a professional data recovery company - which will cost - or if it is not that important, you could remove the hard drive and place it in a USB Caddy and see if any document folders can be read by another computer.

Google for hard drive data recovery

Or try this link: -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=2.5+hard+drive+caddy&...

Have you made a set of Recovery Discs?

[fixisy]

You should contact you local Vaio support for a phisical inspectation. It can be other problems (a contact, a wire). They can give you a diagnose and a better solution.

Or ... if you have the posibility, take out your hard drive, connect it to another computer as slave drive and see if you can extract your data.