Another little question.....this time about a Dell laptop.

ArkiteXJ · Post by **ArkiteXJ** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:26 pm

Hey all you LR junkies. Since I got great results with my last question I thought that I would let you mull over this one for a little while before I actually call up the Dell rep from India that I can't even understand. Besides, it'll help you fill up that contest quota!

I recently bought an Inspiron e1705 lappy with a Core Duo CPU, 1 gig of RAM, WIN XP Media Center, etc. (sadly they wouldn't give me the nVidia graphics card they said they would but that is a different story). Anyway, I reformatted it almost out of the box because they loaded it with all this *stuff* that I didn't want nor did I need. Well, in my haste to get it back in running condition I wiped the little space that I have a feeling was reserved for the Media Direct function

.

Now, what I want to know is whether if I reformat this thing and leave space (how much?-- I think that there was about 4-5 gig's partitioned off) if I can get my Media Direct back.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:43 am

When you talk about the media direct, you mean the play without boot thing dont you?

Im not sure if that is stored in that partition as well, but I do know that dell has that partition for diagnostic software, if there is ever a problem you can boot to that and run full system diagnostics. Not essential, as you can also boot from the dell CD you got (if they are still shipping out CD's with machines

) and do the diagnostics.

Dan

pcrobot · Post by **pcrobot** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:46 am

Here's some info that should help. Scroll down to Pre-Installed Dell Partitions >> Dell MediaDirect Partition. If that works (or doesn't... ) let me know.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:55 am

I found this over at another forum:

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthrea ... +partition

Apparantly you can't delete the parttion with the Media direct on it...
So to fix it try following the thread above.

Hope that helps.

Dan

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:08 am

Thanks!

I bought the same laptop not too long ago and was curious about the media direct button. I deleted all partitions when I reformatted though. I had no idea what the hell there were so many partitions for, one FAT, one FAT32, and another NTFS. I didn't realize the small one was that diagnostics utility... oh well.