Bios on partition

[Mr.Girth]

Im lost here, I have an older Compaq laptop (1020). I formated the hd and tried to install XP. I was unaware of the bios on the hd. New to me I guess :mad: So now, I can not make the laptop boot from the floppy or cd rom. XP is not working, unless in safe mode.

The good news is that I have access to a twin of this laptop. My question is how do I copy the bios back onto the laptop. Again, I do have access to a working twin of this one. Im assuming that I can copy the bios on a floppy and install it in the laptop?

I have been to compaqs site and not much help there or in their forum :mad:

Thanks for any help

[Novensu]

I have worked on a few compaqs, and they used a software package called rom-paqs that you installed on the hard drive. Go to their website and you should be able to find an updated one.

Novensu

[djnes]

As mentioned before, the files you need are downloadable from the website. It's hp.com now, BTW. Also, they should default to looking for a floppy or a CD. If you can't boot from either, it might not be a BIOS problem.

[arkamw]

If they are still available, the PAQ's that you used to be able to download would put the BIOS onto a floppy for you. All it really is, is a slick little GUI used to update settings in a flash ROM area, it doesn't have to be on the HDD (usually; though the compaq restores will sometimes look for them). I used to do this when we wanted to put a new HDD in a compaq with an uncopiable BIOS partition.

It's kind of useful to have a BIOS utility on floppy.

Cheers.