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I selected a drive capacity that is closest to my 256mb dom, and through booting with a dos boot disk, the computer reads the drive just fine. However, it is jost not booting from the hard drive.

I recently got my cp386 online and tried to install dos 6.22 on my portable 386, When I booted the machine using a startup disk, I could enter drive c just fine, but the computer just won't boot from its internal hard drive (The drive clicks for a few times and the screen displays "disk error...

I tried several drives of different capacities but the error code still popped up, I suspect it's due to some settings on the motherboard getting messed up, but how?

I used the drive compaq shipped with the computer, a 5.25'' drive that is dual speed

I recently picked up this Compaq Portable 386 at a garage sale, the machine is in overall good shape except the hard drive is dead. I managed to let it boot off of an CF-IDE card, and just after replacing the 5.25" floppy drive with a 3.5" floppy drive, the computer displayed an 601 "diskette...

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Can anyone use a vernier caliper to measure the dimensions of the threads? I don't have any on jand so I am not sure what type of threads they use.

I just went over the documents for this computer with no prevail, on the repair information documents by IBM, it's referred as the "cover mounting screws"

I recently picked up a IBM 5155 portable personal computer at a yard sale, However, it's missing the six screws holding the case to the front panel. Does anyone know the specifications of it or know where can I buy them? Thanks