NeXT
Veteran Member
Okay, hear me out...
I picked up a really nice LTE Lite 4/25E on my way back from VCFw (the battery even still holds a five minute charge!) and it still has an intact system partition but someone has blown away the rest of the disk and reinstalled Windows 95. Compaq shipped these with an OEM'd DOS and Windows 3.x install, plus a bunch of extra software that enables the extra fancy features like the dock and Standby/Hibernation. I cannot find recovery diskettes for this machine. The closest I have come so far is a "hard disk image" on the internet archive ( https://archive.org/details/ltecfboot ) but they mention that the system partition is missing and "some random utilities and MSDOS 6.22 in English" leads me to believe this is not a virgin install. I mean I can't complain if there's something but if there is a much cleaner recovery method available I'd rather that instead of surgically picking through someone's drive dump.
I picked up a really nice LTE Lite 4/25E on my way back from VCFw (the battery even still holds a five minute charge!) and it still has an intact system partition but someone has blown away the rest of the disk and reinstalled Windows 95. Compaq shipped these with an OEM'd DOS and Windows 3.x install, plus a bunch of extra software that enables the extra fancy features like the dock and Standby/Hibernation. I cannot find recovery diskettes for this machine. The closest I have come so far is a "hard disk image" on the internet archive ( https://archive.org/details/ltecfboot ) but they mention that the system partition is missing and "some random utilities and MSDOS 6.22 in English" leads me to believe this is not a virgin install. I mean I can't complain if there's something but if there is a much cleaner recovery method available I'd rather that instead of surgically picking through someone's drive dump.