The question is, does the special Compaq partition need to be there,
and why?  (And yes, it is old and I have newer computers.)

A friend gave me an old Compaq 7360 computer (p-500) to
fool around with. The HD was blown, but I also got the factory
restore disks.

I did a factory restore on a different totally clean HD.
I had the box working fine and started fooling with the HD
using Acronis Partition Expert2003 and True Image7 or 8.

Along the way (somewhere), I deleted the partition that Compaq
had put a lot of their stuff in since it was around 1 G or 2 out of a
20G hd. The clean HD was an archive drive of mine (I cleared) and it
had seen very little actual running time.

The reason for the question is: After the partitions were fooled with,
the computer rarely boots anymore. (But it still does sometimes?.)
The hardware boots fine from a floppy (win98) IF the HD is disconnected...

It is an odd set of circumstances that I have not dealt with before,
and I can start to understand why some members have been very
vocal about these OEM type restores, etc...

The question is, does the special Compaq partition need to be there,
and why?
                                                   Rick Glazier



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