Compaq PII laptop BIOS problem

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Ok

My friend has a compaq PII laptop WITHOUT a floppy drive.

We need some help on figuring out how to get into the bios?

Problem is , apparently you need to have some compaq data on the
hard drive in order to get into the bios, well the hard drive has been
formatted and like i said we dont have a floppy drive.

any suggestions?

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Martin Slaney wrote:
>
> robotron -X- wrote:
> > Ok
> >
> > My friend has a compaq PII laptop WITHOUT a floppy drive.
> >
> > We need some help on figuring out how to get into the bios?
> >
> > Problem is , apparently you need to have some compaq data on the
> > hard drive in order to get into the bios, well the hard drive has been
> > formatted and like i said we dont have a floppy drive.
> >
> > any suggestions?
>
> You don't say if the machine has a bootable CD drive.

I'm not sure , the laptops at friends house so will have to check
that out tomorrow.



>If so, you have a
> fighting chance. I'm farily sure Compaq make/made a bootable CD
> containing the equivalent of the floppy-set used to install the
> propietary partition and/or run BIOS setup from the CD. You may have to
> ask around to get a copy of this CD or ask Compaq for it.
>
> If the machine doesn't have a bootable Cd drive - well you're gonna have
> some serious hoops to jump through. Linux fdisk can create the utilities
> partition for you (in another machine), but I don't how you'd get the
> data onto it, as (at a guess) the HD would need to be the 1st HD on
> whatever system you were trying to use to install the data.