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copperlab · 07-28-2007, 06:18 PM

I am having this same problem. Have an xps m1210 that origianlly came with xp. I did a clean install of vista. Now media direct button only loads the vista partition, not the media direct partition.

I booted to a dos startup disk and ran fdisk. It seems that all partitions are there (50mb repair partition, 10gb recovery partition, 100gb os partition, and 1.5gb media direct partition). I tried running fdisk /mbr but it said innsufficient memory. Also, it seems that vista writes its own different type of MBR that can't be edited by fdisk. I also tried to run dsrfix, but this left the computer innoperable (I had to run vista repair at startup to have it rewrite the MBR). In fdisk I could see that the start sectors for the os partition and the media direct partition were exactly the same (in my case 1028). This is the problem...But I don't know how to fix the MBR under vista. Can anyone help?

07-28-2007, 06:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
copperlab Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Re: Media Direct cannot access HD? I am having this same problem. Have an xps m1210 that origianlly came with xp. I did a clean install of vista. Now media direct button only loads the vista partition, not the media direct partition. I booted to a dos startup disk and ran fdisk. It seems that all partitions are there (50mb repair partition, 10gb recovery partition, 100gb os partition, and 1.5gb media direct partition). I tried running fdisk /mbr but it said innsufficient memory. Also, it seems that vista writes its own different type of MBR that can't be edited by fdisk. I also tried to run dsrfix, but this left the computer innoperable (I had to run vista repair at startup to have it rewrite the MBR). In fdisk I could see that the start sectors for the os partition and the media direct partition were exactly the same (in my case 1028). This is the problem...But I don't know how to fix the MBR under vista. Can anyone help?