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Restoring a Compaq Armada "BIOS partition"

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First post, by pojo

Posted on 2021-07-02, 11:34

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I purchased an old Compaq Armada 7380MT which works, but I can't get into any BIOS. It has Win95 installed, and there's only one partition. I want to do a clean install, and be able to get into BIOS. From my understanding I need to restore the special DIAGS partition.

1. Can I restore it somehow from CD? This laptop has no floppy drive. All the SoftPaqs seem to be in floppy format.
2. If I have to use the floppy method, will this work in my laptop? It looks like it's about the right dimensions and same Multibay connector.

Reply 1 of 1, by chinny22

Posted on 2021-07-02, 14:52

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Not sure if it will work but you could try extracting the softpaq files and creating a boot CD with the files on it.
Otherwise you maybe in luck alot of the multibays's were interchangeable I just cant find any concrete saying this combination works.
Otherwise I'd think a USB Floppy would also work

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