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I got it done. Wow, what a pain compaq has been. Hooked up hdd as slave in my other computer, reformatted at fat32, started by installing win98, then did a new install for xp.

ARRRGGGHHH!!! Someone PLEASE help! I have a compaq ipaq desktop pc, 733mhz. Everything is in good shape, hardware wise. But I reformatted the hard-drive. Since that time, I could NOT boot from floppy or cd in the multibay. So, like a doofus, I took the hdd out, put it in another Compaq machine...

What was the partition format on the "old" drive? And did you use that drive W/ a different OS than XP. Any chance your partitions are "overlayed?" that happens on some of the crappy MS operating systems, like ME, etc.

Pro-fesshinals - Took my laptop to a computer store - where they promised to try several things cheaply - then reneged on the offer - The laptop pro would not even look at it, telling me it was not worth it. I'm going to do what i can with this or another hdd, and keep you guys posted. i just...

Hi, Thanks for the reply: I have checked compaq site, downloaded compaq diagnostics, setup, and bios softpaq's. Cannot boot from any of these - but i've heard of an issue of these compaq's not recognizing other "boots" after non-system disk message. I cannot get into bios - other than the...

laptop may have some bad hardware - What specifically would be bad on it? Originally (before I messed w/ removing ME, it was working well). Please remember, it's on a "swap" drive - floppy and cd are not in machine at same time. Also - here's a question - doesn't compaq actually store bios...

Ok, here's the deal. Have just bought a used compaq armada 7380dmt laptop. Had win ME on it - hate ME so wanted to format and do a fresh install of 98. formatted, and then somewhere along the line - things got screwy. I ended up deleting the partitions. Then I used a friend's win98 boot disk...