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    Dual Booting with the Mediadirect Button

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Peon, Apr 10, 2009.

  1. Peon

    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    First of all, I'm rather surprised that there's hardly anything about this on the web and what little there is is about dual booting Windows and Linux.

    Anyways, I have an XPS M1330 and I want to dual boot XP with the Mediadirect button and Vista with the power button. I tried this before about a year ago, but unfortunately while my last attempt did work, there were two major drawbacks:

    1) The OS installed on the power button partition can't mount the Mediadirect button partition. This has to do with how the Mediadirect button hides its partition, but I'm wondering if there's some way to overcome that.

    2) Either Vista's new partitioning scheme, or its updates to NTFS, are incompatible with XP when the 2 OS's are installed completely separately (i.e. not using Microsoft's dual booting system). Every time I booted into the XP partition, wrote something to the Vista partition, and rebooted into Vista, the dirty bit on the Vista partition was set.

    So I'm wondering if anyone has had more success than I have in this area and would like to share their insight on how to solve these issues?
     
    Peon, Apr 10, 2009
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