I have one, in mint condition. Problem is, it won't boot from its diskette drive. Years ago I crashed the hard drive while experimenting with Linux, so it also won't boot from hdd. I need to boot it from floppy, so I can mount the recovery CD, and revive the little chap. Last resort is to take out the HDD, attach it to a USB converter, burn an iso on it, and boot it from that. BTW, should any youngster be watching, this is a pc from an era that could NOT boot from CD. This baby doesn't have USB either. It is ancient. Now back to the floppy disk drive.. Whatever floppy I put in, it says it's "not a system disk, replace and hit any key". I've tried many bootable floppies, and also applied a drive cleaning diskette (they're still out there !!), to no avail. Any tips are most welcome.
Try installing windows 95 on hard drive using another computer and then boot it. You could buy CF-IDE with CF that supports booting as well and do things I said earlier.
Also, I bought two of these laptops for changing keyboard in tecra 730xcdt (broken ALT and ESC key, ALT pressing 1, ESC pressing F1), now it works like a charm. Second laptop was in very bad condition, corroded, maybe someone poured some stuff on it (kinda common). First one, as I diagnosed it through LPT (see maintenance manual, if you have spare LPT connector you could use multimeter), and it stopped at first 64KB RAM. When I get soldering station with fan, I'll try swapping EDO chips.
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I have one, in mint condition. Problem is, it won't boot from its diskette drive. Years ago I crashed the hard drive while experimenting with Linux, so it also won't boot from hdd.
I need to boot it from floppy, so I can mount the recovery CD, and revive the little chap.
Last resort is to take out the HDD, attach it to a USB converter, burn an iso on it, and boot it from that.
BTW, should any youngster be watching, this is a pc from an era that could NOT boot from CD. This baby doesn't have USB either. It is ancient.
Now back to the floppy disk drive.. Whatever floppy I put in, it says it's "not a system disk, replace and hit any key". I've tried many bootable floppies, and also applied a drive cleaning diskette (they're still out there !!), to no avail.
Any tips are most welcome.
Try installing windows 95 on hard drive using another computer and then boot it. You could buy CF-IDE with CF that supports booting as well and do things I said earlier.
Also, I bought two of these laptops for changing keyboard in tecra 730xcdt (broken ALT and ESC key, ALT pressing 1, ESC pressing F1), now it works like a charm. Second laptop was in very bad condition, corroded, maybe someone poured some stuff on it (kinda common). First one, as I diagnosed it through LPT (see maintenance manual, if you have spare LPT connector you could use multimeter), and it stopped at first 64KB RAM. When I get soldering station with fan, I'll try swapping EDO chips.