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    Mediadirect button boots Vista on my M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Jeffhou65, Aug 26, 2008.

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    I recently formatted my XPS, and reinstalled Vista from the disks provided. I used the MediaDirect cd to partition the disks ( a 30gb partition for vista, the rest as the other partition) and successfully installed vista. I had taken the whole day installing drivers and games and adding a smaller partition for linux and one for the swap. It was only when i had finished that i remembered that i didnt install mediadirect. So i popped the MD cd in to install it and it would give me an error at 4-5%. I realised that it was most likely because i had partitioned the drive, so i merged the linux partitions back with the 2nd one, and it installed fine. But now both the On button and the MediaDirect button both boot Vista.

    Can i get it to run MD starting the process again?
     
    Jeffhou65, Aug 26, 2008
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