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I recently bought a used Compaq Deskpro EN. It came with Win 2000
loaded and a recovery disk (not a full operating system.) I bought the
computer with the intent to partition the drive and load Mandrake Linux
10. I'm not familiar with Win 2000 and I have a full install of Win 98
SE so I took the original HD out of the Deskpro, replaced it with a
different drive (thinking this would make the reformat easier AND
preserve my ability to play around with win 2k at a later time), stuck
the Win98 CD in the reader and rebooted. The Compaq BIOS recognized
that the HD did not have a NTFS partition (I'm guessing on this) and
refused to proceed further. So here are my questions:
If I clear the CMOS and flash the BIOS with one from whoever made the
motherboard, will it accomplish my purpose (allow me to load the OS of
my choice?)
Is this the best way to solve my problem, or is there a simpler
solution?
System info:
Compaq Deskpro EN PC 866
Midtower case with 200W power supply
HD Seagate Barracuda ATA, model ST320414A, 20 GB
CPU Pentium III 866 Mhz
Audio integrated
Display Adapter Nvidia
OS Windows 2000
Thanks in advance
glenn
I recently bought a used Compaq Deskpro EN. It came with Win 2000
loaded and a recovery disk (not a full operating system.) I bought the
computer with the intent to partition the drive and load Mandrake Linux
10. I'm not familiar with Win 2000 and I have a full install of Win 98
SE so I took the original HD out of the Deskpro, replaced it with a
different drive (thinking this would make the reformat easier AND
preserve my ability to play around with win 2k at a later time), stuck
the Win98 CD in the reader and rebooted. The Compaq BIOS recognized
that the HD did not have a NTFS partition (I'm guessing on this) and
refused to proceed further. So here are my questions:
If I clear the CMOS and flash the BIOS with one from whoever made the
motherboard, will it accomplish my purpose (allow me to load the OS of
my choice?)
Is this the best way to solve my problem, or is there a simpler
solution?
System info:
Compaq Deskpro EN PC 866
Midtower case with 200W power supply
HD Seagate Barracuda ATA, model ST320414A, 20 GB
CPU Pentium III 866 Mhz
Audio integrated
Display Adapter Nvidia
OS Windows 2000
Thanks in advance
glenn