3 Feb
2008
3 Feb
'08
2:49 p.m.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Hmmm...... What you need is a copy of the orig CPQ
System Utilities
diskette that shipped with the Portable, it would've had hdformat.com on
it to do a low-level on the HD... I'm trying to think if early PC-DOS
2.21 (I think it was a powdery pink colored label DOS diskette) may have
had a generic low level formatter on it.
NO version of PC-DOS (and there wasn't a 2.21) ever came with a low level
formatter, and certainly NEVER generic on PC-DOS.
With PC-DOS, the low level formatter was included in the "ADVANCED
DIAGNOSTICS"
With MS-DOS, NOT PC-DOS, it is possible to have generics, etc.
Compaq had their own set of bootable "Diagnostics".
Most "generic" hard disk format programs won't work with Compaq.