silvestrons bits and bytes | Fixing a hard drive for my Compaq Portable 3 @silvestronsbitsandbytes | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
The final piece of the puzzle - the hard drive! I'll be doing a bit of PC archaeology here and trying to recover the life and data on a hard drive that was last used in 1997.
This is part five in a mini-series on the Compaq Portable III
You can watch previous parts here:
Part one - youtube.com/watch?v=gBF2E-BSWJk
Part two - youtube.com/watch?v=5PtKBrIHVIg
Part three - youtube.com/watch?v=JdvOUJ0S5Wk
Part four - youtube.com/watch?v=Na_Oe3Pn_G4
If you like what I do and want to encourage more, I appreciate your support through likes and comments below. If you have the means, you could also support me on Patreon as money helps me buy broken things to fix and build more projects - patreon.com/silvervest
Bookmarks!
00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:13 - Explain the process
00:08:06 - Warning!
00:08:56 - The important drive
00:20:06 - Testing
00:33:18 - Backup plan time
00:38:58 - Testing pt.2
00:42:55 - Install and in-situ test
00:46:24 - MS-DOS floppy creation
00:54:49 - FASTART initialisation
01:03:51 - All done!
01:11:06 - Conclusion
Any feedback is welcome, as always.
Links!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable_III
oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html
winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/331
pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/dos/compaq/3.31
Credits!
Music:
* Masaru Setsumaru - Data Select (from Sonic 3)
Font: Riciery Leal - VCR OSD Mono (dafont.com/vcr-osd-mono.font)
Putting up with my weird hobbies: My wife
Disclaimer!
I am NOT an expert, I have genuinely NO idea what I'm doing, and mostly just glue things together and use a lot of Google-fu until stuff works. I've been tinkering with electronics since I was a kid but have no formal training and will probably do things incorrectly. If you learn something from this, that's awesome, but trust me - I'm learning too!
#compaq #portable #repair
The final piece of the puzzle - the hard drive! I'll be doing a bit of PC archaeology here and trying to recover the life and data on a hard drive that was last used in 1997.
This is part five in a mini-series on the Compaq Portable III
You can watch previous parts here:
Part one - youtube.com/watch?v=gBF2E-BSWJk
Part two - youtube.com/watch?v=5PtKBrIHVIg
Part three - youtube.com/watch?v=JdvOUJ0S5Wk
Part four - youtube.com/watch?v=Na_Oe3Pn_G4
If you like what I do and want to encourage more, I appreciate your support through likes and comments below. If you have the means, you could also support me on Patreon as money helps me buy broken things to fix and build more projects - patreon.com/silvervest
Bookmarks!
00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:13 - Explain the process
00:08:06 - Warning!
00:08:56 - The important drive
00:20:06 - Testing
00:33:18 - Backup plan time
00:38:58 - Testing pt.2
00:42:55 - Install and in-situ test
00:46:24 - MS-DOS floppy creation
00:54:49 - FASTART initialisation
01:03:51 - All done!
01:11:06 - Conclusion
Any feedback is welcome, as always.
Links!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable_III
oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html
winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/331
pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/dos/compaq/3.31
Credits!
Music:
* Masaru Setsumaru - Data Select (from Sonic 3)
Font: Riciery Leal - VCR OSD Mono (dafont.com/vcr-osd-mono.font)
Putting up with my weird hobbies: My wife
Disclaimer!
I am NOT an expert, I have genuinely NO idea what I'm doing, and mostly just glue things together and use a lot of Google-fu until stuff works. I've been tinkering with electronics since I was a kid but have no formal training and will probably do things incorrectly. If you learn something from this, that's awesome, but trust me - I'm learning too!
#compaq #portable #repair
