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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
Hello,
We have recieved 2 Companq DeskPro's (64 and 96 MB of RAM and 166 MHz Pentium) in a donation from a company and of course they have blanked the harddrives before sending them out, thus the DIAG partitions are gone and there is no way to configure BIOS. I would like to install Windows 98 (or ReactOS) on them, however the disks are not bootable nor big enough to house both the CD and the installation and the moment I attach a CD-ROM to the system, it refuses to boot. Would somebody please help me find a way to recover these computers? |
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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
DustWolf wrote:
Hello, We have recieved 2 Companq DeskPro's (64 and 96 MB of RAM and 166 MHz Pentium) in a donation from a company and of course they have blanked the harddrives before sending them out, thus the DIAG partitions are gone and there is no way to configure BIOS. I would like to install Windows 98 (or ReactOS) on them, however the disks are not bootable nor big enough to house both the CD and the installation and the moment I attach a CD-ROM to the system, it refuses to boot. Would somebody please help me find a way to recover these computers? Win98 Boot floppy with CD support. |
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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
craigm wrote:
and the moment I attach a CD-ROM to the system, it refuses to boot. Would somebody please help me find a way to recover these computers? Win98 Boot floppy with CD support. The computer will not boot at all if I connect a CD drive. |
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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
Check the jumpers on the drives, and the drive cable. The drives are either
jumpered master (MS) and slave (SL) with a straight IDE cable or both cable-select (CS) with a cable-select type cable. Is the CD-ROM drive known to be in working order? ... Ben Myers On 29 Sep 2006 07:38:22 -0700, "DustWolf" wrote: craigm wrote: and the moment I attach a CD-ROM to the system, it refuses to boot. Would somebody please help me find a way to recover these computers? Win98 Boot floppy with CD support. The computer will not boot at all if I connect a CD drive. |
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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
Ben Myers wrote: Check the jumpers on the drives, and the drive cable. The drives are either jumpered master (MS) and slave (SL) with a straight IDE cable or both cable-select (CS) with a cable-select type cable. Is the CD-ROM drive known to be in working order? ... Ben Myers Yes the CD-ROM was fine and all, but I figured it out eventually... the IDE cable was supposed to be plugged reverse of what is indicated, then it booted (but of course not from the bootable CD in the drive.. so yay floppies). |
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Old Compaq DeskPro's with blank harddrives
I had a Deskpro 200 Mhz. I put the BIOS partition back on. It was
about 2 years ago. I downloaded the disk 4 floppies to make the partition. |
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