MediaDirect 3 not working on new HD

Hi all,

Just got my new XPSM1210 and before turn it on the first time, I've ghost it to capture factory default. My XPS came with 120GB HDD and I've decide to swap the HD with 80GB from my other XPS. Image restore went smooth on the 80GB HD and normal windows seems fine. But the problem is, everytime I push the MD button, it boot into windows and open MD3 in windows. Is this normal for MD3? The other XPS have MD2 and it never boot into windows, it boot into its own partition when I push the button. I suppose MD3 should act the same as MD2. Advice?

Edit: My OS is Windows XP Home.

Thanks.

 

not sure if that's how it's supposed to work. perhaps you didn't transfer the partition from the old HD to the new one. Perhaps that's just how MD3 works. I'm sure Amber will get around to answering this in time. If anyone will know it will be here. Until then good luck with figuring out what's going on.

 

AFAIK, MD2/MD3 enable us to watch movie, music etc without booting into windows. If MD3 need to boot into windows first, then there's no point to have it around. I've image the drive using norton ghost and it suppose to have a exact copy of the drive. I'm not sure if ghost has failed to image the hidden MD3 partition.