New Dell MediaDirect

[Router-Dude]

No he didn't change your systems, Their system is hosed right now.

Both of my m1210s show as Dimension 8200s, I am told it is being worked on and will be fixed later.

Router-Dude

[gohanssjn]

Thanks, I just got off with chat and was told the same. Thanks!

DN293 KIT, SOFTWARE, DELL MEDIA DIRECT, 3, SERVICE, DIGITAL VIDEO DISK DRIVE 1

JK592 KIT, SOFTWARE, OVERPACK, WINDOWS XP, MCE05U, DIGITAL VIDEO DISK DRIVE, ENGLAND/ENGLISH 1

Those are what was sent. Seems the top one has 3. We'll see tomorrow!

[Krugger]

Here's a question I don't know if there is even an answer to as of yet. I have a faulty E1505 with MediaDirect2 that is being replaced with a new E1505 with MediaDirect3. I was hoping to just swap my current HD into the new system. In reading the little posted about MD3 it appears that the Partitions are different for MD3... so my concern is that MD3 will not function if I swap in my current hard drive. Anybody know if that's going to be the case? Might there be a workaround that doesn't involve reinstalling Windows? If not I guess I will have to backup the data partition from this drive and reimage the new drive's partition, if possible...
thanks!
-Krugger

[Sneakyasiankid]

I got the Media Direct 3 Part number DN293. Its Really MD3.
How do i tell if it is legal/illegal to share?

[drinkingbird]

I got the Media Direct 3 Part number DN293. Its Really MD3.
How do i tell if it is legal/illegal to share?

On the bottom where it says copyright dell means its illegal. Whether they'd care or not is another story. Mine is supposed to be here tomorrow but is stuck in "in transit to local carrier" so who the hell knows. Dell service is a joke these days.

[drinkingbird]

On the bottom where it says copyright dell means its illegal. Whether they'd care or not is another story. Mine is supposed to be here tomorrow but is stuck in "in transit to local carrier" so who the hell knows. Dell service is a joke these days.

That being said if you want to torrent it, I'll leave my system up overnight to assist with getting it out there if you provide the link ;-)

[Sneakyasiankid]

on the disc there the copyright symbol

[jase1125]

I got the MediaDirect 3 CD in today. How do I go about installing it without losing my current OS? It keeps telling me the hard drive is not prepared. I deleted the old mediadirect partition so now there is space for the install...but alas no go. Any ideas?

[lumberbunny]

Because someone is undoubtedly wondering, the size of the MediaDirect 3.0 partition on new Dell laptops is 2047MB, according to the Windows Installer. MediaDirect 2.0 only used 1443MB by default. In addition, MD3 did not come hidden in the HPA (this was on a Toshiba drive, I can't speak for any other manufacturers).

[drinkingbird]

I got the MediaDirect 3 CD in today. How do I go about installing it without losing my current OS? It keeps telling me the hard drive is not prepared. I deleted the old mediadirect partition so now there is space for the install...but alas no go. Any ideas?

I had the same issue. I used Ghost to image the main partition off to a file on another PC, used the MD3 disc (bootable) to set up the partitions automatically, imaged the main partition back, and all went fine.

It sets up a 47 meg tools partition at the beginning (unknown type), a main partition of all free space in the middle (NTFS), and a 2055 meg partition at the end for mediadirect (FAT32). Not sure exactly what its looking for on the install (partition types, MBR settings, names, etc) so figured it was easier to just ghost it off and back and let the MD3 DVD do all the setup.

First boot takes a while due to windows having to adjust some stuff with the partition changes, but after that it works perfect. Then just install MD3 via windows by inserting the DVD.

Worked like a charm here.

By the way it looks like MD3 is maintained by Cyberlink, as the updates link takes you to their site. So maybe they have an image hiding on there somewhere, but its pretty big so prob not. But they seem to be the creators, not dell.