Rebuilding a Laptop with Dell Media Direct.

DeaconFrost

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I am about to wipe out my brother's new Dell XPS1530 laptop, and reinstall Vista Home Premium SP2. The problem I'm having is regarding this HPA partition for Dell Media Direct, which looks to be a hidden 2 GB partition at the end of the disk.

I know Media Center Direct came on a CD with the laptop (pretty sure). What would be my instructions for setting this laptop up? I tried looking on Dell's website, but so far, I'm not having any luck. On one hand, it seems that I'd install this application after Vista, because it is an application, after all. However, I'm wondering if it does the partitioning for me, or if I should leave space at the end of the drive, etc. Thanks for any help or suggestions.
 
Does he use Media Direct?
Ive just wiped the drives clean on all the Dells Ive redone and no one has ever asked where it was
(it does come on a CD with the laptop and has to be installed before the OS I believe)
 
dbwillis said:
Does he use Media Direct?
Ive just wiped the drives clean on all the Dells Ive redone and no one has ever asked where it was
(it does come on a CD with the laptop and has to be installed before the OS I believe)
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Ditto on this.

I always wipe that crap off...
 
I'm thinking it is a feature he probably would never use, so I'm probably wasting my time even trying.
 
Yea... It's really not that big of deal to boot into Windows to watch a DVD. It's not like that Media Direct is instant-on, you've still got to boot into that too, and by that time you could've been halfway done booting into Windows.
 
I don't think the purpose of Media Direct is faster loading time (which is really isn't by much), but longer battery life without having programs and all running in the background on Windows.
 
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