13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
10:03 p.m.
Hello All. I've recently acquired a Compaq Portable III (286, cool gas plasma
display) and am having some problems with the hard drive. After powering up, the system
says to insert a diagnostic disk in drive A. If I choose "Resume" by hitting
the F1 key, it will boot PC-DOS just fine from the floppy drive (1.2 MB, 5.25")
although it complains about the time and date not being set. The system doesn't show
a C drive, however, and FDISK also says there is no hard disk. Here is my question - do I
need these diagnostic disks to setup the hard drive on this system? Or is the hard disk
just dead? Does anyone have a copy of the disks? Thanks for any help. John Reeve