Compaq Legend (P-75) 406CE won't boot

[DavidBeoulve]

I have two Compaq (spit spit) Pentium 75's that will not use my Floppy drive nor boot from an old 320mb drive.

Although the CMOS is configured and recognizes the floppy, the 320 and the 1gig (no OS, secondary HDC, slave), neither the Legend 406CE and the 2200? will work.

A friend of mine said the 320mb drive may have Stealth C virus? I remember that from the good old days, but I'm not sure.

Advise guys? Is Compaq vengeful against non-proprietary parts? How to clean off Stealth, if it's there? What's the most likly problem? (including pilot error)

I have Partition Magic 5, a Win2000 Pro and a Win ME workstation.

Thanks in advance...

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[DavidBeoulve]

Oh, forgot to mention, the 320mb hard drive has Win98 (with DOS 7, for Chuck Yeager and Falcon3 goodness) installed on it. This drive BOOTS JUST FINE on my WinME Duron 850.

It does not boot at all on the Compaqs. I have to disable the floppy drive (on both) just to get them to TRY to boot from the HD (well reconfiguring the boot order might have worked).

DRIVE NOT BOOTABLE or something, then halts.

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[edfair]

Suspect the COMPAQs do some rudimentary filesystem checking and upchuck over an unknown FS type. They are known for looking for their diagnostic partition. You might try changing the boot order and then looking with fdisk.
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