Another Media Direct issue on m1530..

I have 160 gig drive, using Hiren CD> acronis disk director i merged all partition and created 3 NTFS drives and install vista on one of them and they work fine..
The problem is that when i press dell MD button i still boot to the media direct but it eventuallt give me BSoD..
WTH? where is it booting from..i totally reconfigure my HDD including 2.5 gig utility partition and the 10 gig back up...its very annoying b/c if i accidentally press it its disaster. anybody know how to remove or disable it?

 

media direct is useless crap....congratulations on removing it.....i donno positions of button on the 1530.....but how come do u "accidentally" press the media direct button......media direct is made to boot from a separate hdd partition........if u remove it ,it will just show the md screen stored in the bios and look for the partition........if it does not find the partition it will boot on to next partition....c: and boot windows from it......dell ppl say that pressing the media direct button times causes media direct to corrupt the windows installation........so avoid pressing the button.......i have removed media direct the first day i got my machine and havent "accidentally" pressed it even once......so try to avoid the urge of pressing it and trying to look what is beyond it.....maybe it has caused some corruption on windows...... thats cause of the bsod .......... however there is nothing to worry if u dont press the media direct button

 

tnx. i try to avoid it but you never know who might press it..when i press MD button i actually boot somewhere, it doesnt boot to vista. it shows the dell home logo and the scrolling windows xp and then a blue screen(??) and then the BSoD/
very weird, it booting from air...

 

does anybody know how can i edit MBR and change the MD button..
tanx

 

Replace 'Y' with the number of the partition you want the Power button to boot (in my case, it's 2 ), and replace 'Z' with the partition you want to boot if the MD button is pressed (in my case, Suse 10.3 is installed at partition 4). so I put

Code:

E:\dellkit\rmbr.exe DELL 2 4

Now you should get to GRUB when you hit the MediaDirect button when the computer is off. You'll see the MediaDirect background for a short time and then GRUB will appear.

Finally, once that's working, reset the power button so it boots Windows directly. Boot from the Vista install CD and click Repair when the option comes up. Then click the option for command line, and type in the following:

Code:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot

Now Windows should be booting directly when you press the power button.

Taken From Kossel's Guide "How to boot ubuntu using MediaDirect Button"

 

tanx i saw that before, but i don't know what are my partition #s. i have 3 partition that is shown in disk management and add up to 149 gig....and they are in this order
10 gig restore
65 gig vista
75 data stuff