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November 10th, 2008 14:00
how do i completely uninstall media direct and get that partition back?
i thought i had uninstalled this useless aplication but as it turned out, i haven't.
i did it the noob way, through the control panel. while the computer is on, the media direct button does nothing, and the program doesn't appear anymore on the list of programs to uninstall.
but when it's turned off, if i press the md button, there it is...
how do i get those 2gb back?
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Hanspuppa
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November 15th, 2008 06:00
You can go to Microsoft and search for diskpart.exe, download and run it. This is a command line program that has to be run from the cmd command in the run box. With this program, you can delete hidden partitions as well as any partition. Within the program is a help file to show the commands that you should use to remove the hidden partitions. You must know the partition numbers, (1,3,4, etc) before you start or you may delete the partition with the OS installed. After you delete the hidden partitions, you can then go into the Control Panel, Admistative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, and merge the partitions into one. I have done this several times and it worked without any issues at all. You then have the entire capacity of the hard drive on a single partition. Hope this helps.
Hanspuppa
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November 18th, 2008 15:00
The Vista installation will remain intact as it is now, with all the restore points. The Dell Recovery Restore will be gone. This approach will leave the no. 2 partition intact, which is the C:\ where the OS is installed. The first partition is a small, approximately 45-50MBs, that is formated in Fat16, or Fat32, I forget which now, not NTFS. The D: or 3rd partition is the Dell Recovery Restore with a size of about 10 GBs. The fourth partition is the Media partition, about 2GBs. All these can be deleted except for the 2nd or C:\ where the OS is installed. You can then go into Adminstrative Tools and merge the space that the deleted partitons were on, resluting in one partition with the OS intact. You must know what you are doing before attempting this or your system could be rendered unusuable and require a reinstallation of the OS and all your programs from the Dell supplied disk because all your Dell Recovery Restore would be gone, and not available to restore your system.
Hanspuppa
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November 18th, 2008 16:00
I don't believe that is an option. The Dell Recovery Restore has to have the 1st partition intact, in order to use the D: partition (3rd partition), which is the restore files. Since these files are compressed in a special format, they cannot be acessed via another method, such as just copy and paste. They require a special program to be used in order for you to restore the system. When you delete a partition on a hard drive, the Master Boot Record (MBR) is changed and if you recreated a new partition, the MBR would be changed again. The first partition has data that remembers the partitions of the original hard drive, and not the new ones. So, you could say it would be corrupted and unusable.
GARAMVADA
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November 10th, 2008 17:00
:emotion-11: Media Direct is installed on a hidden partition in your hard drive. If you want to completely remove it from the computer you will have to format the partition using VISTA OS cd.
louman61
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November 10th, 2008 17:00
if your using vista you may be able to delete that partition from Administrative Tools within the control panel or just type it in the start menu search, once you get into there go into computer management and select storage and disk management right click on the partition and select format or delete, I'm not 100% sure if this will cause a problem so you may have to reformat but it works with normal partitions. you can then reformat it to clean part as a logical and use it but the only way to combine it is per complete format that i know of.
camr
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November 12th, 2008 07:00
if i format the partition through the vista cd, will it bring problems? is it the same as the other guy said?
camr
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November 15th, 2008 06:00
what do you mean "problem"? just in that partition, or it could bring problems to the other partitions? i mean, i don't mind having 2gb of unusable space, i already do, but if it's going to mess with the rest of my computer, i'd rather leave it alone.
jakuzi13
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November 18th, 2008 15:00
can i also do that with vista by not loosing recovery parts?
jakuzi13
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November 18th, 2008 16:00
so if i want to use recovery again can i do that by copying the files in D: to my old laptop and than transfering them back to my new laptop after i do collapsing and redividing to partions? Actually isnt there any way of doing this without loosing recovery or media direct?
Mr._Pseudonym
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January 3rd, 2009 11:00
:^/ One potential solution is to use a GPartEd live CD. One boots from the CD, and can then re-size existing partitions without losing the data on them. This would allow you to delete the unused partition, and then to move/resize the remaining partitions to use the remaining space.