Firstly my apologies if this subject has been covered and specifically my problem. As a newbie on the board, I did try a search and looking over the forums for answers, but either they have been archived or I am just being incredibly dumb.
My problem concerns the Media Direct programme on an XPS M1710.
Before purchase my hard disk failed, and Dell's reseller replaced my HD. In a rush to ship, he left no partition for the MD function. On arrival at my house all the MD function did was to load up Dell Media Experience in Windows.
I therefore in my newbie way tried to use the MD utility but obviously as the partition didnt exist it did nothing. I then used an open source partition magic programme to resize my existing partition to allow space for MD which worked fine as did the OS after that.
Using the links on this forum, I downloaded MD 2.0 ISO and tried to install. But all that happened was the installation got to 16% and sat there back on the welcome screen of blank blue, welcome to Dell MD powered by whoever. I rebooted and tried the MD which did nothing but the OS still worked.
So i tried to fool MD and creating an x: as the empty partition extracted everything from the ISO installation process onto it. Rebooting, the Dell MD button worked fine but it had also taken over the MBR and therefore Windows didnt boot when I press power instead MD did. USing the MD repair utility fixed this problem but then lost me my MD too
So now my situation is as follows:
Have 1 x partition of 72.7gb with Windows on etc.
1 x 2.26gb unallocated
the dell media direct reinstllation cd
the dell resource cd
a media direct button which boots into the dell media experience and a power button which boots into windows fine.
iv followed all the instrctions in the PDF but no luck.
So my question is - is there a specific problem with the Dell MD install on 16% and then quitting or am I doing something obviously wrong??
Cheers and thanks to the forum for link to Dell MD
My problem concerns the Media Direct programme on an XPS M1710.
Before purchase my hard disk failed, and Dell's reseller replaced my HD. In a rush to ship, he left no partition for the MD function. On arrival at my house all the MD function did was to load up Dell Media Experience in Windows.
I therefore in my newbie way tried to use the MD utility but obviously as the partition didnt exist it did nothing. I then used an open source partition magic programme to resize my existing partition to allow space for MD which worked fine as did the OS after that.
Using the links on this forum, I downloaded MD 2.0 ISO and tried to install. But all that happened was the installation got to 16% and sat there back on the welcome screen of blank blue, welcome to Dell MD powered by whoever. I rebooted and tried the MD which did nothing but the OS still worked.
So i tried to fool MD and creating an x: as the empty partition extracted everything from the ISO installation process onto it. Rebooting, the Dell MD button worked fine but it had also taken over the MBR and therefore Windows didnt boot when I press power instead MD did. USing the MD repair utility fixed this problem but then lost me my MD too
So now my situation is as follows:
Have 1 x partition of 72.7gb with Windows on etc.
1 x 2.26gb unallocated
the dell media direct reinstllation cd
the dell resource cd
a media direct button which boots into the dell media experience and a power button which boots into windows fine.
iv followed all the instrctions in the PDF but no luck.
So my question is - is there a specific problem with the Dell MD install on 16% and then quitting or am I doing something obviously wrong??
Cheers and thanks to the forum for link to Dell MD
