We had an old Compaq laptop running Win 3.1 or 3.11 - it crashed (badly), some years ago.
I was told there was no way it could be revived.
I took it apart and extracted the hard disk. Threw away the rest....
Now I'm trying to read the disk - need to get a few documents off it.
Got hold of a cable to connect it to IDE on another PC. (This PC is running NT Wkstation, but I could use another running Win95).
I can see what's on it - it shows that the disk was compressed
(I didn't know that!) and contains the following files:
Directory of D:\
09/30/93 06:20a 54,619 COMMAND.COM
10/02/96 07:44p 694 STACKER.LOG
11/27/96 07:46a 247 CONFIG._SB
03/16/97 07:49p 326 AUTOEXEC.BAT
03/16/97 07:24p 335 AUTOEXEC._SB
02/21/97 03:49p 335 CONFIG.SYS
12/04/95 12:00a 120,926 EMM386.EXE
12/04/95 12:00a 4,548 IFSHLP.SYS
Directory of D:\STACKER
11/28/91 05:22p 40,667 STACKER.COM
09/24/91 02:00a 29,090 SCHECK.EXE
11/28/91 05:22p 28,030 STACKER.XT
09/24/91 02:00a 18,843 SEDIT.EXE
09/24/91 02:00a 16,384 SSWAP.COM
09/24/91 02:00a 12,992 SCREATE.SYS
09/24/91 02:00a 864 SWAPMAP.COM
Directory of D:\ROOT
09/11/96 11:36a 96 CONFIG.SYS
plus these hidden files:
Directory of D:\
09/30/93 06:20a 40,566 IO.SYS
09/30/93 06:20a 38,138 MSDOS.SYS
10/02/96 07:45p 112,607,232 STACVOL.DSK
09/30/93 06:20a 64,246 DBLSPACE.BIN
01/28/98 09:39p 2,918,400 386SPART.PAR
Now, I realise that I can't just look inside of the STACVOL.DSK and read it.
In Win_3, you had to load stuff using Config.sys to fool the system that it has another disk, and then call that C: and the boot disk something else.
Is there any way I can get my system to do that?
I've printed out some files from the laptop:
Here is the config.sys:
[menu]
menuitem = Full
menucolor = 0,7
menudefault = Full, 5
numlock = off
[Full]
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK /SYNC
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH
FILES=50
Here is the config.sys from 'root':
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK /SYNC
Here is the autoexec.bat:
@ECHO OFF
LH /L:1,16944 C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:5100
LH /L:0;1,45456 /S C:\SMARTDRV.EXE 512
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BAT;C:\TOOLS;
SET TEMP=C:\temp
rem mode com2: 9600,n,8,1,p
rem mode lpt1:=com2:
LH /L:1,12928 mouse
LH /L:1,1120 safety
rem LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:DST_CD01
lh doskey
ver
w
(I remember that the 'w' calls a batch file that calls windows).
I tried connecting the disk to the PC in place of the C: drive (using the jumper for Master)
and it found the disk but came up with 'Operating system not found'.
This might be because it's a Compaq disk..? (I've heard they format their boot sectors in a different way - is this true?)
Or is it because the PC is running NT Workstation? I would have thought that it could have picked up any system from the boot sector.
I have a copy of Norton Disk Doctor available, if necessary, which I can use to examine the boot sector.
Can anyone offer any clues? Many thanks if you can. [Sorry I haven't a lot of points to offer - I will see if I can get some more.]
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