Morning all I'm have a problem with a friends Sony vaio laptop,i was reinstalling xp pro got to reformatting the drive (not the quick one) it was still at 0% after 30 Min's so i left it till this morning but had forgotten to plug the charger in,when i powered on it says boothmgr is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart but noting happens i tried the windows CD and Recovery Console BootCD
but i get the same message again i cant get pasted this,also sometimes i don't evan get that far the screen stays blank i have to keep powering on and of,another thing is when i try to get to bios by f2 it takes about 5or 6 times to get there when there most the time the keyboard wont work to get to boot,but i did get there eventually and and it is set to boot in the correct manner,this is a bit of a headache so I'm going for a spot of mackerel fishing to cool off any help would be most highly appreciated.
Thanks for your reply ripper but iv formatted the drive a number of times with gparted,,gparted is the only one it will boot with every time,but the problem is still there,i eventualy installed vista on it but when u have to power off or re boot it wont boot, well after 7or8 go's it might boot
