Ace on Tech » gutsy http://aceontech.com Design Intentionally Left Out Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2GB partition on XPS M1710 http://aceontech.com/2007/11/04/2gb-partition-on-xps-m1710/ http://aceontech.com/2007/11/04/2gb-partition-on-xps-m1710/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:25:51 +0000 Ace http://www.ace-on-tech.com/2007/11/04/2gb-partition-on-xps-m1710/ Continue reading →]]> XPSWhile modifying my laptop’s hard drive I noticed there was a tiny partition present at the end my disk. I found the idea quite quaint, especially after Ubuntu’s installer returned an error message saying the FAT of this disk was faulty. It being near midnight I cancelled the installation and rebooted, hoping I hadn’t damaged anything crucial (like breaking the boot-sequence), whereas I didn’t really know what that plop of disk was for.

“Is it Dell specific? Does it have something to do with the recovery and diagnostic tools supplied by Dell?” After a quick Google I ended up on Dell’s own website to find out the partition belongs to another quaint application that comes factory-installed, called MediaDirect.

I had once mistaken the MediaDirect button for the power-button and my laptop booted into a custom environment that is able to play media like music and DVDs without having to fully boot into Vista. In itself a nice initiative, but in retrospect something no-one really needs.

I reckon I’ll just give it another shot and install Ubuntu anew, disregarding the error message (since the partition isn’t really necessary).

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