Reinstalling And Dell's "unknown" Partitions
Jul 2, 2008
I'm upping this because I'm afraid "Timothy Daniels", who started answering my problem on 06/27, seems to have missed my reply, and this is getting drowned by now. Kindly forgive me if it is considered unfair or whatever.
"Timothy Daniels"
| This posting belongs in "alt.sys.pc-clone.dell",| as it concerns procedures and software| that is specific to Dell laptops.I did post there, but to no avail.| (.) the 2.01GB partition will contain | the re-installed MediaDirect application | and its "embedded" OS.
I don't get this: so far, that peculiar volume seems empty (as far as I can tell, since it can't be accessed in the usual way, like through File manager),and I'm finished with reinstalling Dell MediaDirect. Do you mean that 2.01 Gb partition is were the system copies its temporary files when I'm using Dell MediaDirect? Does that apply both from Vista and without having loaded Vista in the first place--which seems to be the reason why Dell MediaDirect is made for?If so, if I just delete that partition so as to let C get the liberated space, what will happen next time I launch MediaDirect?
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Posted to: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general + microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup Follow-up to: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Hello from France. Here is my problem of the day... I just put a new, 160 Go hard disk in my Dell Inspiron laptop. Then, following Dell's instructions as found on a flyer that came with the machine, this is what I did :
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3. finish with "For Reinstalling Dell Media Direct 3"
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- second is 2,01 Go - "Type :" basic - "Statut :" Sound (Principal partition) ;
this one can be deleted.......
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