Posts by Robolovsky

I have read a couple of reports from people who have physically disabled the button either with Super Glue or by placing a plastic collar round the internal switch which prevents it from being pressed. I hope you are right about the...

That is very reassuring....but how do you then account for the many reports on the internet (several in this thread) of people losing the ability to boot into their normal OS as a result of mistakenly pressing the MD button...

There is indeed no Dell QuickSet on my machine any more due to the clean OS install. However I think I am right in saying that your instructions for disabling the MD button only apply when the machine is switched on. The real problem...

Really don't like the thought of having to do the reinstall from scratch again.That would be a real waste of many hours work.   Is it at all feasible that the MD bios reference alone could cause the corrupted MBR I didn't...

Hi qhn   No, as I said in my post I have not actually pressed the MD button since installing the new HD and clean OS. So my query is, am I likely to have the same problems as the others if I do accidentally push it even...

Like many others I have signed up to add my comments to this forum and to thank all those who have posted solutions to what is the somewhat crazy situation of owning laptops with a virtual self-destruct button close to the start...