On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @15:04 zulu, JD scribed: > Does mediaDirect need 1308MB (i.e. 1.3 GB) > be unallocated or was that a typo? Not a typo... some people recommended leaving 2GB unallocated, but instructions I found elsewhere were specific about 1308MB (that's 1.27GiB, btw). Dell doesn't give a figure to leave unallocated... their site insists the only way to install it is before the OS: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?cs=04&docid=3082DAC1D7384CD5E040A68F5B2814A2 But other sites, not affiliated with Dell, say it's possible as long as that space is left unallocated at the end. That assumes you've already called Dell and requested the CD, since they stopped including it with new laptops about 5 or 6 years ago. There is no other way to get it onto a new hard drive, since it's a hidden partition that no cloning program even sees (not the Dell Utility nor Dell System Restore partitions). but if you buy a new larger hard drive, Dell will send it to you if you call, tell them you need the CD, and they confirm you bought a computer from them with MediaDirect installed on it originally. It usually takes tools supplied by the disk manufacturer to restore the HDD to its original capacity after MediaDirect has been installed. e.g. SeaTools for DOS for Seagate drives http://seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
