ONLY remove Dell Mediadirect in windows?

Hi! Im having the dilemma that i have 4 primary partitions, one EISA, one OS, one DATA and one Mediadirect. Now im wondering if it is safe and if its possible to format the Mediadirect partition in windows vista diskmanagement? Will windows still work without the MBR screwing up after rebooting the computer?

 

You can remove the Media Direct partition and it won't affect Windows. However, you open yourself up to accidentally pressing the media direct button and causing a lot of problems.

 

Is there any way of "removing" that accident and make it do something else, or nothing at all so it wont be a problem?

 

What others have done is remap the button so that it doesn't destroy the MBR when accidentally pressed. I, however, have no experience doing this because the latest Media Direct is now a part of Vista instead of being it's own partition.

 

Now that your mentioning it it may be incorporated in vista. The thing is that i guessed that my 3gb partition, that is "invisible", was the media direct partition. If mediadirect is incorporated in vista, what could this partition be. Do you have any idea of what this partition could be? Its not labeled or anything and its not the EISA partition.

Would appreciate your help.

 

Which model notebook do you have? Version 4 of Media Direct that the Studio laptops have is just in Vista. The previous versions are a separate partition.

 

I have Swedish model of Vostro 1400

 

You were right in your first post, that the 3GB partition that is hidden is your Media Direct Partition.

 

Ok thank you for your help! Do you know where i can find some guide to how to fix the media direct button? Cant seem to find it anywhere :S or i just suck at searching...

EDIT: Im just finding threads/sites on people discussing the button but not an howto... *annoying*

 

Here is a good resource

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=161761