First Off, information about my laptop

System BIOS Version R01-A01
VGA BIOS Version 1313
KBS Version 08.18
Product name AMILO Pro Edition V3505
Manufacture Name FUJITSU SIEMENS

The laptop broke and wouldn't load up (windows XP) so I stuck in the windows xp disk that I got with the laptop. First it came up to a welcome to setup screen and offers three options. 1-to setup XP press enters. 2 To repair XP press R 3 to exit without installing XP press F3
I press enter and the following message comes up. Setup did not find any hard disk installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected. I tried pressing R too.
So I went on BIOS setup and not really knowing what I was doing I missed around with some options. Now it loads up and all it says is"Operating System Not Found" on just a blank screen and it does nothing more.

If anybody could help I would appreciate it so much. But I am not computer literate so I wont understand a lot of complicated language.

Thanks so much.


I am very sorry if I put this into the wrong section. I wasn't to sure where to post.

Im not a computer genius but im ok so until some of the better ppl come along ill try:


I think its down to hardrive failure, the part about it saying its not connected/powerd in a laptop suggests that it may be damaged. If it was a PC however then maybe a loose cable.

Hi there,

It may not be a hard drive failure.

From the way you described the disk it sounds like a generic Windows CD, the problem is that (from reading the specs) your laptop has a SATA drive which Windows XP often requires a driver for or it will fail to recognize it (as it has).

You will need to download the SATA drivers for your laptop from here I believe it is "Intel Matrix-Storage-Manager Driver (SATA)" under 'SATA' and put it on a floppy disk (it will probably be an exe that you will have to run to create the floppy) and when the windows disk starts up it will prompt you 'Press F6 to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver' hit F6 and put the floppy in.

From there continue as you were.

EDIT:

As for the bios option, there should be a 'restore defaults' or similar option in the bios, try that and then set the boot record to boot from CD Rom first and then the first hard drive second.

Hope this helps

-Lebowski.