I bought a USB HDD adapter for being able to mount it on a VM and install the disk manager directly, then try booting the laptop... we'll see

I had the opportunity to test the disk and other bootable floppies like dos 6.22 and the like, but it didn't boot and would only display a message when no HDD was present (no system disk error) It seems the floppy drive is fried, or the bios is not correctly reading the disk because it boots …

Holy crap! this is a nice one, thanks! I had a go at disassembling the beast, not a small task and I didn't even take pictures... some screws at horrible places and the chassis was even held by several port mating screws... a nightmare Also, the floppy reader bracket holds a spring which retains one …

Thanks a lot fot those two responses, they will help for sure! HDD setup is done with either disk type or head/cyl/sect and I have the original parameters so it will be ok, the only thing will be to find a functional set of floppies to play with I'll try this out before downloading a 200Gb archive …

I hate to do this kind of thing, but bump! Anyone has some hints on the best way to revive this thing? I'd just like to have DOS running...

Hello there, new on this forum, I have not seen any presentation section here so I'll directly ask :) I have acquired an old Epson NB3s in working state except the hard disk, and would like to have a go at replacing it but this system needs a system disk to be able to modify bios options. My …