Trying to help out with an installation issue on the Dell Community Forums but need a Media Direct 3.5 .iso.
The following Dell systems should have shipped with Dell Media Direct 3.5:
Dell Media Direct 3.5.iso (self.techsupport) submitted 2 years ago by PhilipYip Trying to help out with an installation issue on the Dell Community Forums but need a Media Direct 3.5.iso. I did not have the Media Direct partitioning at all, just the MD installation in my own, non DELL Vista Ultimate. So, I just have 3 partitions, 1 - 40GB - Vista, 2 - 170GB - OSX, 3 - 20GB - OSX (expendable). So, there are no Dell partitions on my HD as apparently they aren't really needed for the button trick. Mine is 3.5 which is. Cyberlink dell mediadirect 3.5 Related Tags dell notebook music xp dvd Win vista digital tv notebooks mode a00 xps dvb 3 CyberLink microsoft windows vista bit HDTV powercinema M1330 M1210 windowed m08 mediadirect inspiron 1721 cyberlink dell mediadirect 3.5 web patch 3.5 a01 for microsoft windows vista 32 bit 1.0 inspiron cyberlink dell.
Inspiron 1420
Inspiron 1520
Inspiron 1525
Inspiron 1526
Inspiron 1720
Inspiron 1721
Vostro 1400
Vostro 1500
Vostro 1700
XPS M1330
XPS M1530
XPS M1730
Wondering if anyone with these systems has this DVD and if they can make a .iso with ImgBurn to load onto Google Drive. To make a .iso from the DVD follow the instructions here (just the intial part with WinImage or ImgBurn): http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/converting-your-dell-windows-reinstallation-dvd-into-a-reinstallation-usb/
The Media Direct Installer is locked to Dell Hardware so there is no way of installing the application on unsupported systems.
More details about Media Direct are given here: http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-windows/preparing-your-hard-drive-setting-up-media-direct-a-small-subset-of-dell-systems-only/
It seems the Media Direct 3.3 DVD won't work on the systems shipped with Media Direct 3.5.
Media Direct 3.5 Iso Files
When the user replaces the hard disk, MediaDirect will need to be installed anew because it cannot be copied from the old hard disk. Creating a HPA is not easy and is beyond the scope of what can be expected from the user. Accordingly, when MediaDirect is installed by the user it is not placed in a HPA. Instead, the installation CD places MediaDirect in a regular partition and then hides it ('disguises' is really a better term) by changing the type code in the partition table descriptor to D7. Note the similarity of this approach to the way Dell handles the DellUtility and DellRestore partitions. Unlike a HPA-based MD partition, this 'D7-type' MD partition can be seen by utilities such as Partition Magic and XP's 'Disk Management' snap-in.
| Figure 3: User-installed MediaDirect does not use the HPA. |