MediaDirect3 and Vista

I was told by a Dell rep today that to get MD3 to work with a fresh Vista installation, you first have to clear all partitions and then let the MD disk set up the partitions. Has anyone tried this? I really don't want to spend two hours reinstalling Vista again only to find it doesn't work.

Thanks

Here are the exact instructions as copied from the chat log:

 

Even with XP, this was indeed the case for my 1210.

MD3 needs to set the partitions up, then you can install the OS. Then everything is perfect! My XP and now my copy of Vista works just fine this way.

 

it does not work! dells engineers say m/d does not recognize the vista mbr but a patch is coming soon it will work if you have xp and media direct installed and upgrade to vista but it is still not right m/d points to the wrong gocuments folder and it only works 50 % of the time so just sit back and wait on a fix because supposidly its comming, they got to have one because they are shipping vista with m/d 3 they are not releasing it until they are sure it doesnt cause more problems

 

I got the same thing from Dell too. I have no intentions of going to Vista until all the major gremlins get worked out. MCE is just fine for now.

 

Same here. Actually I could care less about Media Direct. Went through about 6 hours removing Media Direct without corrupting my XP install.