Posts by MarkMcK

Quote: Originally Posted by Spyderm@n Does any know if MediaDirect will work on a Precision M90? It has a similar button to the left of the main power button as on the e1705 that I bought for my daughter, but it is, of...

Rummage thru this thread and see if that helps any. Of note... If you press-on with a Reinstall as you've done, you'll need to increase the space for the reinstall. 1308MB is not enough. As far as avoiding another Windows...

Quote: Originally Posted by zederbee Any ideas on this? This isn't 'pretty' but should work.... 1. Use PTEdit32: Make a note of which row holds the D7 partition values [should be row 3] and change partition...

Quote: Originally Posted by stuoke So I am instaling windows and I made sure to parition a 40 MB space beofre formatting the hard drive for Windows. So what steps should I follow now? After you get Windows...

There's a good chance you have the wrong CD. Did it auto-detect your model or is there a drop down menu from which it expects you to select from a list? You may want to 'skip' the CD completely and go straight to Dell's download site...

Quote: Originally Posted by zederbee I was under the assumption that it created it when you ran it. That's correct. It will create a partition in the unallocated space and then install the files. Here's what...

Quote: Originally Posted by zederbee Acually I have local disc (C) documents (Z) and one that says extended. What is the extended?<!-- / message --> I suspect you don't have any unallocated space at the...

Quote: Originally Posted by zederbee So then I just mounted the iso and same thing. Any ideas?<!-- / message --> There's one of several possible 'problems'... You don't have enough unallocated space...

Quote: Originally Posted by sooner06 like to know if theirs a easier way for the MediaDirect 2.0 to be installed? Your best bet is to leave the Dell Utility [~40MB] partition alone when reinstalling Windows...

Here's some info that may help. The specifics will depend on what you've done wrt partitions etc... http://www.notebookforums.com/thread159964.html Mark