This model Compaq is the one that has the motherboard, hard drive and 3.5 FD mounted on a pull out tray under the monitor. No room for a CD. Just enough room to get a cable out the empty slot.
Something that Compaq designed to compete with the early Mac, everything in one box. Even has a NIC on the motherboard. Power supply is up in the monitor, will not power up unless the tray is all the way in.
And I have had too many bad experiences with IDE compatibility to try that. I have about a 50 percent success rate with loading windows on computers and then moving the drive.
I had to just lay the CD-ROM drive on the workbench not the hard drive.
Hugh
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:06:17 +0100, Hugh Prescott <hugh345@...> wrote:
Found an old but good WD 345 Mb drive, made up power and IDE drive
cables to run the CD drive outside the case. Found the USB CD ROM
version of Win 95 and then the special boot floppy to install Win 95 on
systems that will not boot from a CD. Took more than 3 hours to find
all the stuff, get it all together and load Win 95 but it all came together.
Drove it out to the plant and hooked it up. Loaded their punch control
software and loaded a job to punch. Everything worked like a charm.
They think I am a freeking hero.
Hugh
Never throw anything away ever.
Would it not have been easier to install 95 on a PC with CD drive, or copy the install directory to the harddisk?
It gets a little frightened and confused if you put it in a totally different PC (drivers), but it usually survives just fine. If you want to spare it that traumatic experience you can pull the power after the first reboot (before it detects hardware), and transplant.
What kept you from running the harddrive internally?
ST
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