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    Is it safe to remove Media Direct Partition?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dleewo, May 23, 2008.

  1. dleewo

    dleewo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a 1520 that I want to scrub and reinstall Vista Ultimate which I recently got free from MS for participating in a monitoring program. I would like to dump all the partitions and create just 2, a C: drive and D: for my data. I would like to remove the Media Direct partition and also the restore partition Dell creates.

    Is this safe?

    My concern is the Media Direct button and what would happen if I accidentally press it if I don't actually have a MD partition. I have read various posts about MD nightmares and I'm a bit paranoid. Will it be silently ignored if I press it?

    Derek
     
    dleewo, May 23, 2008
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Sure. Most of us here don't have it on our machines.
     
    nizzy1115, May 23, 2008
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  3. gunned

    gunned Notebook Evangelist

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    Removed mine the day I got it...nothing happens when the button is pressed...but you can program it to launch various apps ....cheers
     
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  4. dleewo

    dleewo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the quick responses.
     
    dleewo, May 23, 2008
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