<p>Whoa. I had totally forgotten about those. There were a few other systems that did similar things, but instead of putting BIOS on the HD, they'd have a minimal BIOS in chip format, and the SETUP program would be on floppy or something. Of course, most people lost or damaged those floppies...</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On May 23, 2010 6:31 AM, "Greg Clifton" <<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>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"><p><font color="#500050">On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Michael Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:</font></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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