Power Button is booting Media Direct and not Vista

I got a new 1520 yesterday and I reinstalled a fresh copy of Vista. After installing, I installed media direct within Windows. I reboot Vista many times successfully.

I then decided to try the media direct button, and it started, but had a problem reading my C drive. It gave me an error about bitblocker, even though I'm not using it. This didn't bother me as I don't really care if Media Direct works or not.

The problem I have now is that when I press the power button to boot the machine, only Media Direct boots up. I can't boot Vista.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm wondering if something got screwed up in the partition, e.g, the media direct partition is now the "default" boot partition?

 

I U Dont Care About Media Direct U Could Do Antoher Clean Install But Without The Media Direct Partition

 

You may have messed up your partitions. The media direct button should boot to the 2nd partition (correct me if im wrong) on the hard drive. The power button will boot the computer up and search for the first partition.

Something to try to fix it is to put the windows disk in and try to repair vista. I would say to screw the media direct personally.

 

I got Vista to boot by pressing the MD button and the once Vista came up and I shutdown, the power button continued to work correctly by booting Vista.

I then repeated the problem so see if it's reproducible and it is. So at least I can get into Vista.

sly97531, you mentioned I can blow away the MD partition. Have you done this? If I do that and reinstall Vista, what would happen if I then press the MD button....will it simply boot Vista so I would effectively have 2 buttons for booting?

I saw in another post, people have successfully mapped that button to launch an app while in Windows so I can experiment with that.

 

OK, I went ahead and blew away the MD partition and extended my C: drive to incorporate that extra 3GB of space.

Now, both the MD button and the power button boots into Vista so I'm happy. I had to uninstall Media Direct from within Vista so it doesn't get launched when I use the MD button to boot.

Derek

 

You screwed up the partition and boot table. If you are going to do it all over again, you should use the MD CD to boot up the computer and define the partitions. Then install the OS and finally re-install MD in the new OS.

 

That is actually what I did the first time. I had found some instructions within these forums.

Anyway, I've removed the MD partition now and was able to extend the Vista partition without having to reinstall.