Not that I'm aware of. MD3 is supposed to be be the first step. Someone else may have a workaround.

I don't think you can, but I think the first time it only repartitions your hard drive, so if there is already a mediadirect partition, I would think that you can install it on there. I would try it,  the only thing it would do is say that you can or that you can't.

ive done the same, but vista allows you to create another partition without removing the O.S,i created drive d of 5gb and tried to install media direct, still would not let me, but the instructions say if you forget to install media 3 first then use third party software to create partition, as vista does it for you why will it not install without destroying the O.S??/

done it without removing O.S. , I set up another partition in my hard drive using vista = drive d. copied the media 3 disk into the new drive and installed it from d drive into d drive, works fine.

It needs to set up the partition table first, and that's hard to do without screwing up the existing one. But if anyone has any ideas, I'm listening!

Media Direct is not worth the problem I have Vista running perfect without it and don't miss it one bit.

bryfly: With the computer off, if you press the Mediadirect button, does Mediadirect come up?

Hi, tried the media direct button, media dircet comes up on the screen, then about 5 secs later on the top left it says........ MD extended partition table erro................guess that means it does not like something, however the buttons on the front work when the computer is on

Dell has a utility partition driver that you can download. I'm not sure what it exactly does, but it might help.

Oh, ok, so the pressing-the-button-when-the-computer-is-off thing is what you'd need to repartition the whole system for when installing MD3. That's what I'm still looking into to try and avoid unnecessary OSRI's for.