Dude, you may be screwed. Older (pre HP) Compaq's had some of the system BIOS written on the hard drive or some such crap that forced you to buy any replacement hard drive from Compaq (at ridiculously HIGH price). I once ran into the problem on an old Compaq notebook that I could not get to boot after I upgraded the HDD (this was like 15yrs. ago, so I don't think it was a drive geometry issue that far back since the choice in 2.5" HDDs was pretty limited). Maybe there is a Compaq format utility on the web somewhere that would write the required info to the drive, otherwise I doubt it will work.<div>
<br></div><div>GC<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>I wrote it in the web browser, so I sent it at gmail time. So, whose got the non-sync'd clock: you or gmail? ;)</p>
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<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">On May 22, 2010 8:27 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com" target="_blank">ale@pcartwright.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>On Sat May 22 20:08:35 2010, Michael Trausch wrote:<br>
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hmm, you supposedly wrote that at 8:35pm, yet I'm responding and my clock says<br>
8:24pm now..<br>
# date<br>
Sat May 22 20:26:23 EDT 2010<br>
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