It's only drive X you need to worry about...the installer only uses X.

Help me please. I have three partitions. 1st = C with XP Windows Pro, 2nd = D with all data, and 3rd = 2GB unpartitioned unformatted space for this DM2.0. I inserted the CD but then it didn't do anything other than showing the blue logo screen. What should I do? Do I need to click on some files on the CD or...? Please help me. I would like to install this program on my INS9300.

I am just confused. Maybe i am doing something wrong. Please let me know.

Thanks for any help.
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Did you press enter when prompted to do so?

Just to be sure.... The Reinstallation Utility is run from Windows and not DOS/reboot....

Mark

Hey hanjlee

You need to copy all files off the data drive and back it up to your C: or external hard drive. Delete the Data Drive partition. Run the MD20 install again, when the MD autorun logo runs all you have to do is press enter. After the installation create your data drive partition and copy your stuff back to it.

If it doesn't work, deleting the data drive won't be necessary...you just need to resize it to make sure that you have a spare 1.3Gb (unpartitioned space) after your C drive as well as a spare 1.3Gb at the end of the drive.

Thanks guys for the replies. But I am still trying to figure it out. As tentonie suggested, I made another empty partition right after the C. So now my hard drive has 1st - C with XP pro, 2nd - unpartitioned 1.5GB, 3rd - D, 4th - unpartitioned 2GB. When I pressed the Enter on the blue screen, a progress bar showed up went as far as 10% and then the progress bar disappeared and stopped there. I am sorry but would you guys help again what I should do now, please. I greatly appreciate your helpful comments. Thanks a lot. Having 2GB instead of 1.3GB could be a problem?
If i could, I would like to get around having to delete the Data drive section (which is now the third partition).

I cant help you with your problem unfortunatly.

But I really wanted to point out that the way you went about asking for help is top notch man! Too many people forget the "please" and "Thank you's" and not to mention not giving any type of info that is needed to troubleshoot something.

Anyway, sorry for the off topic rant, just wanted to point that out!

wrt the size of the unallocated space... the problems I've seen tend to arise from not enough space.

And just to confirm some things... as the terminology is getting a little turned-around....

You said "... I made another empty partition right after the C" Do you really mean you made a partition or do you mean there is unallocated space after 'C'???

Sounds like you've got it right with just two 'Partitions' and two areas of unallocated space, but just want to check....

Mark

thanks Mark...
So currently my hard drive is C-Windows XP Pro, followed by 1.5GB unallocated space, followed by D-Data Section, followed by 2GB unallocated space. So yes that's right that I have two partitions and unallocated space immediately after each of these partitions.
.... I don't know what to do. I think the size of these unallocated space should be enough according to what people said in this thread.
Thanks

I agree.... it should be 'ready to go'...

Guess some more info may be useful....

Try downloading ptedit. This utility runs from DOS and shows what's in your Partition Table. Would only need to know which rows have values and for those that do, what are the values for 'Type' and 'Boot'

Also look in Windows at Disk Management. Is there a 'no-name, no-drive letter' listed in the 'Volume' column???

I really don't have anything concrete to offer at this point as your symptoms are very much like those experienced by folks not setting aside enough unallocated space for the MediaDirect partition to slide into....

Sorry....

Mark

I got this installed but for some reason I cannot exit out of MD 2.0 by pressing the exit button.
I'm having to press the power button to shut down the laptop.

Have I missed something, I followed pugsly's new instructions.

I see that my MD installation does not have the hibernate function enabled

any idea why ??

hanjlee, are you sure it is unpartitioned space and not empty space within an extended partition?
If you are, follow my instructions for creating the partition manually (a couple of pages back).

sid21177, are you sure that you correctly installed your video and audio drivers? Did you shut down media direct properly through the shut down menu in task manager after doing so?
Do you have an NVIDIA card or an ATI card?

I have a 6800U
I did install the drivers.

When I clicked the shutdown menu I saw that hibernate was disabled.

Maybe i'll try again. Thx