I think I broke the hdd, please help

I have a new Sony Vaio VPCEE37FX.
_I was playing with the recovery facility by pressing Alt+F10 while booting and I've powered it off while it was formating the disk.
I know this was very stupid of me, but I've thought that when booted with ubuntu cd it will re format the disk and tht was it.
Now when you start the pc it says "No Operation System"
But now none of the boot cds I've used works. Knoppix says something like "unable to find Knoppix path, giving you a very limitd shell".
I've put a windows xp boot disk and it fails at some point.
The same with the Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits it hangs forever.

I've used a boot GParted to create partitions and format them and everything was fine, but the problem persists when I try to install any os.

Any help very welcome!!

Thanks,

Hernan

 

That's very strange.... What is exactly the problem with booting from a Windows CD? Does it not boot or is the installation process interrupted?

 

Hello,

running an old win xp sp2 boot disk I have it stops with a blue screen saying something like:

"Windows has stopped to avoid damages to your equipment.
Check for Viruses. Remove any recently installed hard drives.
Check for your Hard Drive to make sure it is correctly configured and **Finalized**?? (what is this?).
Run CHKDSK /F
"

That's what a win boot disk stops with.

Any help greatly appreacited.

Is thre a boot utility that will repair the disk ?

 

Try the Alt-F10 again. Unless YOU have subsequently destroyed the recovery partition, you should still be able to use it.

WinXP is blue screening because it needs a driver to see the hard drive. And the ONLY way you can provide the driver is via a Floppy. XP will NOT recognize either a USB device or a CD for a driver load during install. Or you can slipstream the proper driver.

Vista and Win7 have the driver built in and do not have this issue.

Gary

 

I would try Win7 boot CD too.... strange - never had such an issue. There is obviously something wrong with the HDD, but I don't think a hardware issue...

 

Conclusion the Vaio sucks, I cant install Ubuntu there, very bad purchase

 

Ahm.... that's pretty much the least professional and the most absurd conclusion you could have made. "My car sucks coz I can't park it right... very bad purchase"