plug it into the Compaq for good measure, "disk I/O error, replace disk" - I assume this is basically the same error? Or could this mean that while the drive caddy seems to work, it's actually faulty?įor the record, CHKDSK can't find any issues with the IDE drive.ĭoes anyone have some ideas? that USB card will arrive in the mail eventually but I hoped to make progress on this this weekend.Īlright, so I ran fdisk on the drive to create a new primary partition, this worked fine.reboot as required, "invalid system disk" appears, presumably because it's not bootable? (same error if I copy over the DOS boot files from the boot floppy but I didn't expect that to work).reboot Dell from the IDE drive and run Win98 Setup seemingly successfully.It demands formatting, so I format it as Fat32 with DOS boot files and copy over Win98 setup.delete partitions from IDE drive with fdisk from Win98 floppy. ![]() I don't have a USB PCMCIA card yet so I can't use CDROM with the Compaq. ![]() I got a replacement caddy from an Armada and the drive is recognized in BIOS (60GB drive, listed as 8GB as expected). I bought a Compaq LTE 5100 that came without a drive.
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