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    Installing XP on M1530 will i still have Media Direct??

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by elwood, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. elwood

    elwood Notebook Geek

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    What i want to do is delete all the extra partitions besides Media Direct and merge them into the main C partition.

    I plan on using the guide on here for installing XP with the drivers slipstreamed into the installation disk. It won't be hard as i already have an unattended XP installation disk with SP2, all critical updates up until the time it was compiled and a bunch of essential programs (codecs, winrar, java, etc.) all slipstreamed into the installation.

    Will i still be able to access Media Direct after installing XP and removing those other partitions?
     
    elwood, Jun 24, 2008
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    whamerman Notebook Enthusiast

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    If you start off by booting to the media direct disk you can keep a partition for media direct. Let the MD disk do your partitioning.
     
    whamerman, Jun 24, 2008
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