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Pat,

As several other poster have noted, this Compaq 286/LTE model, beige color with
CGA (bluish colored screen) does use a diagnostics/setup diskette which
contains the setup program for the computer.  And yes, it is still available on
the Compaq site.  What is not still available is the old Conner 40mb MFM drive
which most of these units used.  The setup program has options for other size
drives as well, but I have only seen it with the 40mb Conner.  This is an old
MFM drive no longer made.

I gave one away two months ago.  Worked fine booted off of floppy, and ran word
perfect and other programs just fine.  Wouldn't run win3.1/  3.11.  because of
the CGA screen.  If you find a working drive, you can doublespace it (gasp....)
and end up with about 70~75mb disk space.  I used to use it for carrying
diagnostics programs around on service calls.  If you  find a drive, you can
use the dos debug command to access the address space for the drive controller
and format it that way (low level) or with commercial setup programs.  Unless
you are desperate for a DOS workhorse, I say give it away to an aspiring DOS
student.

Good Luck!

Mangey wrote:

>      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.
>
>     I found a Sys Req key and have tried various combinations with Alt, Fn,
> Shift and Ctrl keys and also Ctrl / Alt / Esc.
>
>      I would like to know if it works or goes in the bin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sorry to post this again but I thought maybe I should supply a bit more
> info,
>
> Pat,
> Brisbane, Australia,
>
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>
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