[ale] Hard Drive "boot sector" Question

[Greg Clifton]

Dude, you may be screwed. Older (pre HP) Compaq's had some of the system
BIOS written on the hard drive or some such crap that forced you to buy any
replacement hard drive from Compaq (at ridiculously HIGH price). I once ran
into the problem on an old Compaq notebook that I could not get to boot
after I upgraded the HDD (this was like 15yrs. ago, so I don't think it was
a drive geometry issue that far back since the choice in 2.5" HDDs was
pretty limited). Maybe there is a Compaq format utility on the web somewhere
that would write the required info to the drive, otherwise I doubt it will
work.

GC

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> I wrote it in the web browser, so I sent it at gmail time. So, whose got
> the non-sync'd clock: you or gmail? ;)
>
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> On May 22, 2010 8:27 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat May 22 20:08:35 2010, Michael Trausch wrote:
>
> hmm, you supposedly wrote that at 8:35pm, yet I'm responding and my clock
> says
> 8:24pm now..
> # date
> Sat May 22 20:26:23 EDT 2010
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