Thank you Royan. Hi, The Media direct is on a hidden partition on your hard drive. Hi, In attempting to boot from the Windows Disk by pressing F12 my screen shows a "loading files sequence" followed by a "install Windows" screen prompting me to choose the language I wish to use in the Vista installation I fear proceeding further as I do not want to proceed with a full Vista OS installation as this will reformat my HD Can you pls clarify what I may be doing wrong and exactly what steps will be needed to view the hidden drive so that I may delete Windows Media Direct Royen, thanks for your help!!
Hi, You will need to click on Install Now, and then it will show you the list of partitions, select the Media direct partition, and click on drive options and then format. When I try to explore the disks contents it says empty. What do you think might have happened?????? I greatly appreciate your expertise and help in solving this strange problem Jim. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? You can post your question in our community.
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Now I can install other antivirus now. I'm a software reviewer and I need to install and uninstall too many programs every time. Please advise. It worked for me, the original. Did you use ImgBurn to burn the disc? When you use 7zip, it will extract the. When I extracted the first file using 7zip, it extracted all files and folders into a specified folder named "MediaDirect3. It's as if the 10 files are treated as a single big. I got time today to redownload and test. My instructions above were slightly wrong and have now been amended.
Combine should be used instead of extract. Please follow the new instructions above. Launch 7zip navigate to where you downloaded the files using 7zip window.
Right click on Mediadirect3. Going for Dell XP upgrade to 8. Any help would be greatly apreciated. That would be great! Can you tell me precisely why we should use 7zip and ImgBurn , as any burner will do the job. ImgBurn because I made the. I have no idea what you are on about with the search engine…. I suppose thats meant to be a bad way of spelling my name. Regardless I do not have a search engine named after me.
Partitions set up correctly 1. When it comes to installing Windows 10 should I install into the System partition or delete 2 and let windows create its MB System and remaining Primary and install into that? I've not tested Media Direct with Windows I have been informed its pointless to setup however as Windows 10 encrypts the drive and booting to Media Direct hence cannot read media files from the drive.
It's really just that I'm worried about pressing the Media Direct button could corrupt the OS as I have read elsewhere, doesn't really need to work. You can try to install Windows 10 on the largest partition after setting up Media Direct but I have not tried this.
Ok thanks will try, so your best guess is to install on the existing partition rather than deleting it and letting windows create its normal 2 partitions for MBR? Thanks for letting me know. I followed everything you have said I think. So, it will fire up in windows 7 by pressing the media button. You then have to power down and power up via the media button and it will just boot in to windows 7 normally.
I'm guessing that it is looking for the NTDLR in the windows partition but it is looking in the wrong place?? Any ideas? Media Direct partitions need to be setup before Windows 7 installation. Then Windows 7 is installed on the largest partition with all the system drivers. The Media Direct Application is finally installed alongside its patches. Its honestly more hassle than its worth to setup however. Thanks for the reply.
I have already done everything in your reply, starting with the mediaDirect partition etc etc and finishing off with the patches.
I did try bootsect. As you probably guessed it now says "Bootmgr is missing" instead lol. As before if you boot again from the Mediadirect button it loads windows ok but when you log it in actually fires up Mediadirect in the windows environment. So I have done a bit of reading around the subject but I'm still a bit unsure as to why it says the Bootmgr is missing.
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