[PC Problem]: "Missing Operating System"

Hey guys,

I have a huge problem. I have two laptops...one mac one pc. The pc laptop is a sony vaio vgn c140g. I decided to sell it because it was just laying around collecting dust.

I decided to run a program called "DBAN Boot and Nuke" which basically you burn a bootable cd and run it at bootup and it wipes your entire HDD clean.

After this, I re-booted, and the BIOS was still intact, so no problems right?

Wrong. I put in burned windows XP disc and it reads for a bit and says "missing operating system" I checked the BIOS boot order and it boots CD drive first then HDD.

I ordered Vaio recovery discs for the time being.

Did I just burn the XP disc incorrectly? All I did was drag the .ISO XP file onto a CD-R and burned it.

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

I was thinking along the same lines.

Thanks for your help.