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Dell XPS 1530 with XP Pro and Media Direct - Possible??

Asked by Raland9966 in PC Laptops, Windows XP Operating System

I purchased a Dell 1530 and needed to remove Vista and install XP Pro due to some legacy programs that would not run with Vista/IE7. XP is not directly supported for the 1530 thought all the device drivers are available if you look at the 1330/1730 so I completely formated the drive returning it to a single partion.
It appears that if you do not have the Media Direct parition when you press the Media Direct buttion it trashes the MBR. From my research on the web it appears there is NO place in the bios or otherwise to disable the button. Did I mention the user accidently pressed the button after I shipped the laptop 600 miles away. ARGH!.
My basic understanding is that Media Direct sets in it's own 2.5 gig partiion and does not interact with the OS in any way??? My only option at this point seems to be formating the drive again but this time creating a partion for MD and re-installing it. Then reinstalling XP in a partion for the OS. This way if the button is accidently pressed MD will not wipe the boot record and the user should be able to exit MD and open XP.
Anyone have experience with this?? I'm worried that MD does in some way use the OS and finding XP instead of Vista is going to leave the laptop just as useless as it is now and I will have wasted more time trying to make this work rather than just going immediately to a different laptop. Appreciate any assistance. thanks!
-Ralph
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