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No CD boot, floppy fragged
I have been asked to look at a 7400 for a friend. This, because of age,
didn't land in my lap with OS or REstore disks (if it ever had any). I did notice that the Win98Se files are stored in c:\windows\options dir. There was no setup.exe I am thinking that the 7400 probably came with a floppy that initialised a restore/setup via this dir. Does anyone know if this is true? Also I can't get it to boot from CD, the bios allows for this but I can't get it to happen. Is this something i'm missing? The floppy is no longer a virgin and my attempts to try an OEM floppy drive failed. I assume your supposed to buy an original spare. I don't usually play with propriety systems. Any hints welcomed |
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Mongo,
go to http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/compaq/faq/hardware.htm#hdd they have info regarding system restore and f10 bios utilities stored on the hdd . hope this helps, terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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