Ressurecting an Omnibook 530

[HarlandC]

I am starting this thread to try to document what I have gone through trying to get my Omnibook 530 up and running.

I bought this OB530 back in the late 90's. It came with the base unit, a power supply, and two hard drives. One 40MB one 130MB. IIRC, neither one would boot, and I had no way to put either drive into anything to try to see if it was broken, so the OB was not usable. I bought a 170MB drive from ebay, but this one was blank, so no luck with it either.

I was finally able to use a friend's laptop to try to look at the drives, and surprisingly, was able to see that they were okay, (again IIRC, it's been a long time!) just that the bootable flag was removed from the partition on each drive. I set both to bootable and was able to boot the OB.

The 40MB drive had the OB drive image on it, but with windows removed, so only Dos 6.2.
The 130MB drive had the full OB image including windows 3.1.

At this point I didn't have use for the little laptop, so it was stored away.