Vista & Media Direct Nightmare

I have a Vostro notebook. It came with XP home and as soon as I got it I installed Vista ultimate. I thought in the process of installing it, I erased the media direct portion, but I guess I didn't. I don't really care about Media Direct.

So here is the problem. Months of after doing this and having no issues, this morning I accidentally hit the media direct instead of the on/off button. It loaded the media direct, which was a suprise. It said that it couldn't load it because bitdefender was enabled and I need to disable it. Fine, I don't really care, so I turn it off, but when I turn it back on, it doesn't go to vista. It keeps going in endless loop back to the media direct. I CAN'T LOAD VISTA NOW.

F8 results in boot option for only Windows XP embedded or something like that. From the looks of it, my boot file or whatever it is called might have being overwritten by the media direct.

I can't reinstall windows because I need to get work done today. Any direction on way of getting back Vista?

 

Sometimes trying to start it with the Media Direct button again will get Windows back.

 

Had you hibernated Vista? I had this problem when I hibernated my computer with Windows XP, and I fixed it by letting MD boot up fully, then exiting it properly, then waiting for a full power down, then hitting the power button. Hope that helps.

 

Thank you Hep & Chelet. Strangely, letting it shutdown through the media direct and then hitting the media direct button again did the trick.

 

Yep, no problem. MD is a disaster, when I had this problem it was basically just combinations of shut downs and start ups until it worked again. Glad you're all set again!