Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:09:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Compaq Portable II - Restoration Problem, Help requested
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Did you put those disks into a windows 2000/xp or
newer pc? Possibly as
far
back as win 98/95 (I don't remember when they
started) the boot sector
gets
overwritten if you put a non write protected disk in
the drive in windows.
Pretty sure some of these disks have never seen Windows of any form. At
least one booted a Compaq Portable I owned by a friend
Tom