On Mon August 2 2010, Darr wrote:
However, if that is the hard disk that came in your Dell,
MediaDirect is ALREADY installed... you just can't see
it because from the factory it was installed in a hidden
partition at the end. In that cased all you should need to
do is fix LBA0 - the MBR - (but NOT with XP's 'fixmbr'
in repair mode, nor with fdisk /mbr), and/or the boot sector.
so, how come when I
press the button now, I get the mediadirect logo screen,
then it goes right to the grub menu.
Here... check out this site
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm
that's not only a good synopsis of how MD works, but
they make a tool to diagnose and fix the Dell MBR
and/or the Boot Sector if the driver CD is missing.
You could also boot off the Utilities and Drivers CD,
then at the DOS prompt run
x:\ > CD \MD2
I can't find that CD... I did find one for my Dimension..
x:\MD2 > REPAIR
I booted the Dimension recovery CD, no repair.exe. The files I see are:
autorcd.exe
boot.cat
choice.com
diag32.bat
dosmenu.bat
reboot.com
and some folders
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800