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Reinstalling Vista
I just got a new vostro 1400. After working with it a couple days I have decided I want to reformat the HDD and to a clean install of vista, the 10GB recovery drive and some other small drive are bothering me so I just want to put everything on one partition. My question is really about the dell media direct software. I was reading that to install that I have to put in that CD first and sort the HDD and then install windows before actually installing Media direct. So I need media direct? I don't see why I would use it, so will it hurt not having it on there? I am assuming that by not installing it all it means is that the house button on the top will just be useless.
- Some other small driveHiThis drive is for the at boot F12 diagnostics for the hardware on your computer.If i remember right when you partition the drive Vista does not see this driveand it can,t remove it but it will let you remove the D:\not sure if it will let you remove the Media direct never had it to see.But if you will not use MD you can get some kind of partition tool most of themwill let you remove them all and you would have a clean drive to install Vistaon .There is one called Gparted live CD that is free it will workyou can do a search for it , it comes as an ISO that you burn to a CD .Butmy advice is just leave the small drive it really comes in handywhen you use it to see if there is a hardware problem .Other than this it should work the way you want it to .Good Luck
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Posted December 11th, 2007 02:00