Subj : Re: HP fun and games
To   : TOM WALKER
From : BEN RITCHEY
Date : Wed May 18 2005 11:16 am

* An ongoing debate between Tom Walker and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

BR>| RT>> to be able to keep those diagnostics if I can.
BR>> Compaq does this, too. To propagate the maintenance partition you
BR>> have use i to (re-)create it's own "install" diskettes (I needed
| TW> On the several COMPAQ Floppy Setup/Maintenance sets I have downloaded
| TW> off their internet Web site if the Hidden partition has been
| TW> eliminated the Floppy set had the capability to Re-Create it and load
| TW> the programs.

Yes, I needed to do just that when my HD went out (dead). It re-created itself
just fine. Since I had already allocated every track to the one and only
partition, I wonder just where it put it, and how it accesses same ...

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