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    Dell MediaDirect without booting up

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Raging Dragon, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. Raging Dragon

    Raging Dragon Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 1735 and I heard that older dell laptops would allow you to boot straight to the mediadirect software without booting windows.
    I wanted to knw if anyones found a way to do this on their studio 17/15 laptop or if it is even possible.
     
    Raging Dragon, Feb 13, 2009
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    No its not possible, not that I think of.
     
    xxbadboys93, Feb 13, 2009
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    I heard that previous versions were able to this so I thought that maybe if you install a previous version then that will work but I get the feeling its a little more complicated then that.
     
    Raging Dragon, Feb 14, 2009
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    You got to have a seperate partition for media direct. I remember my hp had something similar that it would be able to boot without the os. But once I deleted the partition, it never worked again. So I know that if it were able to boot w/o windows it will have to have a seperate partition.
    If you find that it works post back.
     
    xxbadboys93, Feb 14, 2009
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