At 12:38 AM +0200 1/26/07, Dotan Cohen wrote: >On 25/01/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> At 10:48 AM +0800 1/25/07, Chong Yu Meng wrote: >> >On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 03:27 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Thanks. I had to reinstall the OS. And just hitting that damn button >> >> nukes anything that's not Windows on the hardrive. >> > >> >Hi Dotan, >> > >> >My recent experience with Dell laptops (those with XP) is that they have >> >2 partitions, one of which is a recovery partition that is normally >> >hidden. ... >> ... >> >> His has a different setup: >> >> >On 20/01/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >> >Not that before I booted I played with the laptop's MediaDirect >> >feature, and I suspect that it ruined grub. Or more. What can I >> >do/check? Thanks. >> >> Google on MediaDirect. The BIOS changes the partition table when >> MediaDirect is started by pressing the hotkey. Something is supposed to >> change it back when MediaDirect is done. I don't know any more than that. > >Thanks, I will google that. I had only googled Dell Laptop Media >Button and variations thereof. I did not know that it is called >MediaDirect. You said and I googled: At 12:20 AM +0200 1/21/07, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... >Not that before I booted I played with the laptop's MediaDirect >feature, and I suspect that it ruined grub. Or more. What can I >do/check? Thanks. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
