compaq portable plus problems

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Thanks clearing that up Fred, its been a long time and I wasn't sure.



Curt


Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> With PC-DOS, the low level formatter was included in the "ADVANCED
> DIAGNOSTICS"
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> With MS-DOS, NOT PC-DOS, it is possible to have generics, etc.
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> Compaq had their own set of bootable "Diagnostics".
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> Most "generic" hard disk format programs won't work with Compaq.
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