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Compaq Re-Cap
Name: liam8910 Date: September 29, 2005 at 08:00:20 Pacific OS: 3.1 CPU/Ram: 286/640kb
Comment:
I have now replaced the small round battery. I have downloaded spo308 to my computer then winzip gave me the option to extract it so i did and choose A: drive. So it extracted onto my 720kb floppy disk. I put it into the Compaq and hit F1 and it said "Invalid system disk" once again. How can i be sure that the battery i replaced is working? And what can i do now? Thanks
Name: plainandsimple Date: September 29, 2005 at 08:48:18 Pacific
Reply:
You do not unzip to floppy, you unzip to a folder and run the executionable file inside the archive something like 'SP0308.exe'in command line.
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Response Number 2
Name: T-R-A Date: September 29, 2005 at 10:55:42 Pacific
Reply:
All Compaq Softpaq's are designed to create 1 or more floppies (like plainandsimple says) from the executable. If you're dealing with sp0308.exe (c. late 286/early 386) you'll need to make sure that you're not putting in a 1.44MB disk.
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Response Number 3
Name: eureeka Date: October 8, 2005 at 06:57:47 Pacific
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I had to format the 720 Kb disk in the same compaq, booting it with a sistem disk and then FORMAT A: /F:720 with the blank disk. then restore the sp-disk to it in another working machine. in my case the compaq didn´t like disks formated by the newer machine. it also seems that windows doesn´t like to format 720 disks any more.
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Response Number 4
Name: Kurt S Date: October 21, 2005 at 08:10:48 Pacific
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