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    MBR and Mediadirect

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dannis, Aug 9, 2009.

  1. dannis

    dannis Newbie

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    hi all

    I have installed the win 7 on Dell M1330, everything was right.
    Then I occasionaly pressed the "Mediadirect" button instead of Power... the mediadirect was started and it seems it's crashed MBR.

    fdisk shows:
    - 2 old partitions now. They were C: and D: before "Mediadirect" button was pressed (now these 2 partitions are shown without letters);
    - Mediadirect partition, which became C: This partition is active now.

    fdisk /mbr and assigning the first partition as active did not help. Th system writes "NTLDR is missing"

    What is the solution for this???
    thanx.
     
    dannis, Aug 9, 2009
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  2. Peon

    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Some people have had luck fixing the problem by pressing the mediadirect button a second time. It might work for you.

    I guess it's too late to be of any help now, but on older Dells, pressing the mediadirect button without a mediadirect partition will brick your laptop. It's totally retarded, but then again, so is Dell.
     
    Peon, Aug 11, 2009
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    discovery Notebook Guru

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    @Peon

    Which older Dells do you mean?

    thnx
     
    discovery, Aug 14, 2009
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    Peon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Every model designed in the pre-Mediadirect 4.0 era.

    Note that I'm not saying that a Mediadirect 4.0 machine can't be bricked this way, I simply don't have any information one way or the other and I doubt anyone would like to risk bricking their brand new Studio to test this ;)
     
    Peon, Aug 16, 2009
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