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post #41 of 444
4/21/06 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by acidfire52
Well... I got it all installed and configured..

Then only problem is when I boot into my regular windows, my login screen does not respond.

Have 2 users, and connot click on either of them. Just does not respond.

Anyone else have this prob?
Can you press ctrl-alt-del and login with the username/password box?

I only had the single user on my machine, so it boots up with the regular windows and just takes me right to the desktop.
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post #42 of 444
4/21/06 at 4:27pm
Download keeps cutting off early. 1 ended at 250mb another at 15mb, now this is my third time. Is there another link to dl MD20?
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post #43 of 444
4/21/06 at 4:28pm
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Originally Posted by Pugsly0014
Can you press ctrl-alt-del and login with the username/password box?

I only had the single user on my machine, so it boots up with the regular windows and just takes me right to the desktop.
Nope, the mouse moves, but does not register clicks.
The keyboard does not respond either.

I deleted the partition it created, then it seems to work fine.
VERY weird
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post #44 of 444
4/21/06 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by thaddyusmaximus
Download keeps cutting off early. 1 ended at 250mb another at 15mb, now this is my third time. Is there another link to dl MD20?
Thats the only link I found. I would try do download it with a download manager which will resume if the download cuts off early.

Gozilla is a really good download manager, last time I checked.. It was still free.
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post #45 of 444
4/21/06 at 7:54pm
Hey Pugsly,

I'm going to attempt this install this weekend. I just need a little clarification on the instruction process. I have a spare 60 GB drive I can experiment on.

1. During the OS install should I create two partitions a C: (59.5GB) and a D: 1.5 GB Partition. Or should I just leave 1.5GB of unpartioned space free?

2. Is the MD2.0 a bootable CD? If yes, can I install this first before the OS installation or must be installed in the OS?

3. Where can I find the ERD commander CD. Is that a Dos boot cd? Can i just load the ERD.exe file on my bootable thumb drive and run it from there?

Thanks in advanced,

Thaddyusmaximus
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post #46 of 444
4/21/06 at 11:08pm
ok i got it work, but now i am having trouble with erd commander. when i boot into my c drive (my windows installation) and i go to the explorer in erd, it says my c drive is the media direct drive, vice versa if i boot into the d drive. so i try to edit the boot.ini and copy explorer to the dell media direct folder, but when i click play and turn it on, it goes straight to media direct (this time my os is not booting so i kno im getting somewhere) however when i try to log back into erd commander, my changes were not saved, is there an option to save changes or something like that? otherwise, could u recommend another program similar to erd. thanks
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post #47 of 444
4/22/06 at 1:07am
Where do I get a bootable erd commander .iso?
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post #48 of 444
4/22/06 at 1:52am
erd costs money, but u can find it floating around on p2p, torrents...


having issues again. i now have an unbootable laptop. i lost the original pcmservice.exe file and dell media direct won't start. when clicking the play button the computer will load media direct but i get an error message. when i try to power up from the power button, that also loads media direcct (but in a different way with the gray loading bar) otherwise its the same, i ended up wiping out the media direct drive with erd commander but i dont kno how to make my windows drive the default drive to boot from
any suggestions?
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post #49 of 444
4/22/06 at 2:30am
Ultimate Boot disk should work instead of ERD shouldn't it?
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post #50 of 444
4/22/06 at 2:33am
I have my disk partitioned with C and D drives, and I want to put it on some unused space at the end. Is there a way to install DMD 2.0 using the install (edit some file, right now it chokes right when the install is about to copy files) or can I get an image of somebody else's install?
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post #51 of 444
4/22/06 at 2:40am
works great









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post #52 of 444
4/22/06 at 4:22am
Next question:
Has anybody know if DMD 2 is localized or only in EN ?
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post #53 of 444
4/22/06 at 4:47am
Where do I put the drivers? The audio doesn't have an executable.
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post #54 of 444
4/22/06 at 7:11am
I cannot get pass step 10. I modified the boot.ini and did all the copying and moving, but as soon as I exit ERD I get a bluescreen. Then I have to manually turn off my computer and pressed the play button. It does not ask me which OS to use. So I repeated steps 6 and saw that the boot.ini is back to its original. I am using Windows MCE 2005. My original boot.ini looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNAL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=256

It looks completely different from your tutorial. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.
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post #55 of 444
4/22/06 at 9:33am
As one guy said aboave, my hard drive is partitioned to C and D, too. How should I begin in this case? Please let me know. Thanks a lot!!!
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post #56 of 444
4/22/06 at 11:13am
you can put the drivers on a cd or usb dongle. i tried the usb however my computer did not recognize it. i just accessed my windows drive through explorer and i went to c:\dell\drivers and my drivers were there that i installed for my windows installation. THose workedfor me.

As for having two drives, you need to use a program such as partition magic. I would wipe out the d drive (non-windows installation drive), then i would make the c drive reclaim the unallocated space. THen choose the resize option in partition magic. I would make the c drive 1500 megabytes smaller. When installing media direct 2, it automatically makes a partition in the unused space that was created when re sizing the hard drive.
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post #57 of 444
4/22/06 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by h0p3l355is4
I cannot get pass step 10. I modified the boot.ini and did all the copying and moving, but as soon as I exit ERD I get a bluescreen. Then I have to manually turn off my computer and pressed the play button. It does not ask me which OS to use. So I repeated steps 6 and saw that the boot.ini is back to its original. I am using Windows MCE 2005. My original boot.ini looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNAL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=256

It looks completely different from your tutorial. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

no thats rite, heres the boot.ini i would use
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNAL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=256
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect /KERNAL=NTOSKRNL.EXE /maxmem=256

quick reminder. when creating the second line in the boot.ini (the one all the way at teh bottom multi(0)....etc) i would copy the line above it first so you don't make any typing errors. Make sure u change the timeout, the windows name in quotes (it can be anything just has to be different" and make sure u change the NTOsKRNL.EXE
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post #58 of 444
4/22/06 at 12:25pm
My boot.ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Why is there a (2) instead of (1) as in pugsly
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post #59 of 444
4/22/06 at 12:28pm
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Originally Posted by Kainco
My boot.ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Why is there a (2) instead of (1) as in pugsly

it doesnt matter what number there is as long as u keep the same number consistant throughout the boot.ini. the problem that u may be having is that u are looking at the wrong boot.ini
try accessing the other drive (c or d depending on where media direct installed) and check that boot.ini
if u look and previous posts, you will see what it should look like (regardless of the number (2) or (1))
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post #60 of 444
4/22/06 at 2:51pm
Ok I got everything to work now too. It took me forever to find erd commander 2005 tho. The audio driver i downloaded from dell. That one has an executable. I too could not get my thumb drive to read. Now i got to do it on my main drive. Did partition magic work for you shrinking the drive so you have 1.5gb of unallocated?
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