On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 00:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Leho Pärnapuu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have one old Laptop: Compaq LTE 5300. > > Something to watch for with Compaq computers: They > don't like to boot other than the pre installed > OS. Some of them will complain that you have a corrupted > MBR and enter some sort of recovery mode if they > have other than the pre installed OS on them. Many > of them have the BIOS in a special disc sector > or partition. If you inadvertently overwrite it, > then you may wind up with a mostly unusable system.
What time period are you talking about for these comments? For it to be a 133MHz machine, we're talking about a machine from 1997 or so - a good thirteen years ago. Simon.
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