Re: 286 Laptop Bios Booting Question

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From: Paul
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:00

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A lot of older Compaqs used a setup program that came on a diagnostic
floppy usually it was called setup.exe (original).  You might be able to
find it
somewhere on the net thru ftp ...

Mangey wrote in message <3784dfde@news.powerup.com.au>...
>     I have a 286 Laptop given to me for nix, it says it has a hard drive
>error, dos installs on floppy is OK but I can't seem to get into any Bios
>Options (to try hardformat the drive) using the usual delete key on bootup.
>It's a Compaq LTE.

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