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    Dell Direct Media OS Problem. HELP??!!!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by latestgood, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. latestgood

    latestgood Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    I just reinstalled My vostro with Vista Home Premium. Everything worked perfectly until I pressed DellMedia Direct button. I get this message:

    Dell MediaDirect Express cannot access your hard drive. This may be because you have enabled Microsoft BitLocker (Drive Encryption). MediaDirect Express is not accessfible when Microsoft Bitlocker is enabled.

    Well, I never like Dell. But I can't go back to Vista OS anymore!!! When I turn off from DellMedia Direct OS. Every time I press power button, dellMedia loads. Wow, I'm really pissed of at Dell because I can't even get into my OS because of their stupid program that nobody uses.

    Help Please!
     
    latestgood, Oct 16, 2007
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  2. Sredni Vashtar

    Sredni Vashtar Notebook Evangelist

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    Do a search on this forum before trying this, since I do not remember if it's the right approach to solving your problem.

    It seems that MD has fiddled with your partition table. A way to get the Vista bootloader back should be (but do a search to verify this) to pop in the vista installation disk and do a fixmbr. This will rewrite the first sector of the hard disk.
    You might also want to back up the mbr by using a linux live CD (again a search in google will show you how to use the dd command to do that).
     
    Sredni Vashtar, Oct 16, 2007
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  3. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you don’t mind loosing MD, then you can repair Vista boot record by booting with Vista DVD > Repair Your computer > Select the Vista Installation > Startup repair.
     
    PhoenixFx, Oct 16, 2007
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