Posts by Pondskipper

your best bet is to reinstall again and leave 1.5 gigs of unallocated space. That is your only way out!

someone definitely should. there are SOOOO many MEDIADIRECT threads in this group AND in others.

if deleting ALL of the partitions, you should have left 1.5 gigs of UNALLOCATED space on your hard drive. then installed MCE on the existing partition. After installing windows, the DELL MEDIADIRECT RE-INSTALLATION CD (not the repair...

what is there not to get? you don't have media center on your computer, therefore when you press the button when windows is on, it cannot find the program. that is why you get the error.

return it.. get another one.. if that screen isnt up to par... ask for a screen replacement until you get one you are happy with.

no it will not load media center because you don't have it in xp pro. that is why you are getting that error message that the software isn't loaded.

you can return it and reorder. if you don't wanna return it then you might be out of luck. another thought is talking to a manager in the customer service department saying that you think you deserve this deal and are very upset about...

Quote: Originally Posted by rat wtf...its downloading at 4kb/s beggers can't be choosers

i have come across this on other machines and usually the solution is clearing system memory for the movie. On the 1210 i do have this problem, but if I turn OFF the wifi, and then boot up the DVD it goes away. I think the WIFI has...

when i am in windows and press the button it starts up WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER. thats what it should do in windows but when the computer is off, it starts the MEDIADIRECT application