If you can’t make floppy disks, you can try to find the disks on eBay or leave a comment below, and I will try and help. If you are using a 3.25-inch disk, then you will need to use the 720k version. If you are using a 5 1/2 inch floppy drive, you will need to create the diagnostic disk using the 360K version. First, make sure you have set up the hard disk / CF card properly by installing the cables and providing power, then turn on the computer with the Compaq Portable Diagnostic Diskette in the floppy drive.I won’t go into too much detail on how to install MS-DOS you can find detailed step by step instructions here if you get stuck with my simplified instructions below: The Compaq MS-DOS does offer some unique features that allow you to manipulate how text is displayed through the MODE command, but at the end of the day, I found MS-DOS 6.22 more familiar and user friendly. When I restored my Compaq Portable 386, I found it was actually worthwhile to install the original Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 just to poke around.
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