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Hi

I have a dell vostro 1700.
Yesterday while booting I may have hit the Media Direct button.

I have a dual boot setup on this laptop.
I left the default partitions in tact but shrunk the XP partition and installed Ubuntu. Both operating systems have been working flawlessly for 2 months.

here is the message I get

I researched this error and know it has to do with some kind of plug and play hardware ...I am guessing the media direct button.
I can't boot into Windows at all. None of the options work (F8)
I cant even use driveImage(from a CD) to restore the windows portion, it just goes to blue screen.

hopefully, I dont have to do a reinstall. Before this happened , I had been running dual boot for about 3 months happily.

I can boot to Ubuntu however and everything is fine on that side
Here is my current partition setup as seen from within Ubuntu.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 14268 14593 2618563+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 * 11 7973 63962797+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7974 14593 53175150 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 14268 14593 2618563+ dd Unknown
/dev/sda6 7974 14004 48443944+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 14005 14267 2112516 82 Linux swap / Solaris

not sure where media direct is located... maybe in f W95 partition?
I dont really need this media direct.

Any insight? Thanks

 

STOP:HAMMERTIME

The media direct button has been labeled by many as the "Self destruct button"
Try powering down, hitting the MD button, then rebooting. Some people have had success with this method. Good luck.