new hard drive for laptop installation problem

[cagedl]

i have a toshiba satellite a105-s4274 and i tried to reformat it and after it went most of the way thru i got a "ntldr is missing hit ctrl alt del to exit" and called toshiba they said hard drive was no good so i buy a new hd and put it in and am getting this error with the recovery cd in

pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable
pxe-m0f: exiting intel boot agent.
operating system not found

toshiba said i'd need to have a tech look at it which best buy wanted $50 to install it and i already paid 50 for the new hd and the laptop itself is only worth 150 or so, so i'd like to get this fixed or just sell it, any info would be appreciated

[Computer_Commando]

Recovery CD only works with original hard drive by "recovering" the image on the hidden partition.  Put the original hard drive back & try again.  This will return the computer to the original "as shipped" condition & you will lose everything else.

[cagedl]

the old hard drive gives error "ntldr is missing ... hit ctrl alt del to restart"  which toshiba says means that hard drive is no good? yet it was fine b4 i tried to reformat it for the 1st time with the cds that came with it

[Kando]

I have a Toshiba too, have you checked the boot sequence in the bios?


 

pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable
pxe-m0f: exiting intel boot agent.
operating system not found