I recently obtained an older sony vaio laptop with no hard drive. I installed a new drive and I have the oem recovery disk set, however I have been unable to get it to boot from the usb dvd-cdr drive (no optical drive on this unit)and I go into the "missing NTLDR" loop when I try to start it up. Does anybody have any ideas on how to get this baby running? Can I pull the drive and put it in an external enclosure and "pre load the needed files, then put it back in the sony? Help!
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