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formatting COMPAQ Presario computer
Name: gerryb Date: January 24, 2004 at 00:25:04 Pacific OS: win ME CPU/Ram: 1.2
Name: Matt Ridley Date: January 24, 2004 at 02:39:21 Pacific
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Do you mean reformat (I.E. Restore to new)? If not then exactly what do you mean?
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Response Number 2
Name: michael2 Date: January 24, 2004 at 03:25:32 Pacific
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Bewarned!!! Some Compaq's store part of the BIOS on the hard drive in a hidden folder. If you delete this folder, you will be stuck. See...... http://fdisk.radified.com/
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Response Number 3
Name: mesich Date: January 24, 2004 at 11:04:21 Pacific
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Hi Gerryb, Matt, Michael2, hello everyone,
The BIOS is still on the CMOS chip on the motherboard.
What Compaq does is installs the utility to access the BIOS on a Non-DOS partition.
If the Non-DOS partition is removed you would not be able to access the BIOS via F10.
Compaq has a utility on there site that one could run that would restore this.
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