Faqt, If you want pretty decent help for compaq's go over to The Compaq Zone and "talk" to a guy named Toby B.

On his main page, you'll see a link for the listing of released softpaqs. I do believe you'll find a softpaq that will recreate your lost bios partition. If you don't see it listed you might still find it at either compaq's or HP's ftp sites.. Here is a thread that will give you more info and tips on finding rompaqs not listed in Toby's LORS pages. Also, if you don't see Toby hanging around much at his site, you might also locate him at motherboards.org's forum..

If you still seem to be getting nowhere, shoot me a pm and I'll do some digging for you..

good luck..