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post #321 of 444
6/30/06 at 12:10am
Check out this video of Dell Media Direct: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2RobzQVv4&eurl=
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post #322 of 444
6/30/06 at 6:45am
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Originally Posted by zederbee
I wanted to do this to my 9300 but the link to the media direct file won't work. Does anybody have it?

It was only a page back

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Originally Posted by Deceptikon
I re-uploaded Media Direct 2.0 if anyone needs it still:

http://up-file.com/download/5b0f0522...ect20.zip.html
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post #323 of 444
6/30/06 at 9:59am
Någon som fått igång Divx eller Xvid i DM ännu?
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post #324 of 444
6/30/06 at 6:37pm
It is working now. I clicked it yesterday and I was getting the page cannot be displayed. Thanks

Edit.... Followed the link. Now where is the download button. Either I am blind or having a really bad day.
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post #325 of 444
7/1/06 at 1:36am
This is the direct link:
http://up-file.com/download/5b0f0522...ect20.zip.html

Halfway down on the right it says:

up-file all 4you
This is your link to file
Unlimited speed for all
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post #326 of 444
7/1/06 at 5:17am
zederbee - and anyone else looking for download button, approx halfway down page on right hand side is a link highlighted in blue 'up-file all 4you'. Click on this and your download should start. (Took me about 5 attempts at the link before I went over the page to find the next link - only 2-3 hours of trying to work out what I was doing wrong!)

gerry
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post #327 of 444
7/2/06 at 9:07pm
Thanks for your help.
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post #328 of 444
7/7/06 at 12:56am
Ok I am having problems again. I got the file burned the iso and went to install. It gets to 10% and dies. I downloaded it again and burned it again and the same thing. So then I just mounted the iso and same thing. Any ideas?
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post #329 of 444
7/7/06 at 1:11am
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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 [~1.5GB]; It is not in the 'correct' place [After all partitions]; or your Partition Table is full [You've already have 4 partitions]

hth

Mark
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post #330 of 444
7/7/06 at 1:19am
I set 2 GB free and I only have 2 partitions. One is the Local Disc and One is my documents.

Acually I have local disc (C) documents (Z) and one that says extended. What is the extended?
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post #331 of 444
7/7/06 at 2:45am
Anyone got DivX working yet?
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post #332 of 444
7/7/06 at 2:49am
I just resized my other partitons to give me a little more space. I hope this works. I am going to try again tomorrow.
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post #333 of 444
7/7/06 at 11:04am
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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 end of the existing partitions. Also with an extended partition, you'll more than likely have trouble with MediaDirect not finding the partition properly.

If you're comfortable with moving/changing your partition structure, post a screen shot of you Disk Management screen and we can go from there....

Mark
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post #334 of 444
7/7/06 at 12:31pm
Here it is.



If you can't make it out let me know and I'll take another one and focus on the numbers.
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post #335 of 444
7/7/06 at 12:40pm
Thread Starter 
Dell Media Direct can not be installed on an extended partition. It must be a primary.
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post #336 of 444
7/7/06 at 1:00pm
I thought after reading this I had to leave the space free. So all I have to do it make the space at the end of my drive it's own partition? I was under the assumption that it created it when you ran it.
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post #337 of 444
7/7/06 at 2:23pm
Thread Starter 
Yes.. you need free space at the end of the drive, but it needs to be on a Primary partition. The free space can not exist on an extended partition.

The reason why, is that extended partitions are not bootable.
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post #338 of 444
7/7/06 at 3:19pm
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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 I recommend.

1. Temporarily move all your files from Z to someplace on C

2. Delete the Extended partition so you only have the C 'primary' partition. You'll need to delete the Z partition and then also delete the resulting 'empty' extended partition.

3. Create a primary partition sized so that it leaves ~1.5GB of unallocated space at the end of the hard drive. I can't quite read the size of your present Z, but it looks like 20.9GB with 1.6GB left over. If that's the case, then make your 'new' primary Z partition 20.9GB as well.

4. Run the MediaDirect Reinstall

hth

Mark
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post #339 of 444
7/7/06 at 3:36pm
Thanks MarkMan, I am doing this now. May finish today if my files would move faster.
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post #340 of 444
7/7/06 at 4:53pm
Ok that worked and it is installed. One more final question. On the origional directions it said to copy the taskmgr.exe to windows/system32 on the new partition with media direct. I went to do this, but I can't get into the partition because it donesn't appear. I can view the files in partition magic and see the directory path, but when I type that in it finds nothing. Any ideas on this?
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