Posts by TheDude1707

Quote: Originally Posted by coastalcarolina TheDude, Did you delete any partitions on your original DELL hard drive, or just format the main XP partition that it came with?? If you didn't delete any partitions, or...

Quote: Originally Posted by coastalcarolina The instructions that I posted in the links above tell you how to do the MEDIADIRECT installation with one partition, or a MAXIMUM number of partitions up to three. It is...

I am sorry but from what I can tell you do not need the space to have MediaDirect installed. I don't see why you need this space it might be if you want to have moer than one partition but I don't know. I was looking for a way to just...

First I do not Format it I just make it and then Put in the Media Direct CD and run it. If I do not do this it messes with the OS partition and it will not load in to windows. And the file you have looks like the same file I got I don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by 21st Hermit I made 3 bootable CDs. I always get the same results: DR-DOS boots, get about 2 pages of white text, then it stops with this prompt line: DR-DOS A:_. At the blinking underline I...

Quote: Originally Posted by 21st Hermit Thanks for all your posts. When I boot from the repair CD, I get an DR-DOS A: prompt, what do you get? From what I understand, most people get an F: prompt. From the A:...

Ok just to give an update on what I have tryed If you go back you will see I talk about how to fix media direct. Now what I am going to tell ya is if you got rid of all the partitions and are runing Windows XP MC, All you need is to do...

Ok I see this new way to do things but what if you did a full format and Deleted every thing and want to use MediaDirect. I don't see how you can get it to work with out more than one PARTITION. As with keeping that 48MB diagnostic you...

Quote: Originally Posted by kamiraa ok so 1. delete are partions 2. make one 8 meg partition 3. make one (maxium left - 1324 ) partion to install XP on 4. install XP 5. Let media center install on that unknown...

Quote: Originally Posted by kamiraa So after you make partition 1 which is 8 megs. Then with windows install you take up the rest of the available disk space with a new partition, while leaving that original 8 meg...