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    Dell 1420 and media direct

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Asymmetricblog, May 10, 2009.

  1. Asymmetricblog

    Asymmetricblog Notebook Consultant

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    When I press the media direct button, the media direct screen flashes for about 1 second and then the computer boots into Vista. Why? Isn't the button supposed to go into media direct?
     
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    If you have MediaDirect 4, it doesn't work like that. It just boots into Vista and starts MediaDirect instantly if you have it installed.
     
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    What good is that? I can do that myself.
     
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  4. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    It's no good to me either way. :p I would rather have the hard drive space that was on the MediaDirect partition, so I reformatted it and made it part of my Windows partition. Also, I set the MediaDirect button to launch Windows Media Center, and never even bothered reinstalling MediaDirect.
     
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