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Byrds6
30 Aug 2007, 11:40pm
I have Vista as my main OS and recently deleted the partition with XPpro on it as I no longer needed it. Does anyone know how to remove the the start up screen where it asks what OS I want to use?

Thrax
30 Aug 2007, 11:51pm
Boot your XP disc to recovery console. Type:

fixboot
fixmbr

Reboot.

Tex
31 Aug 2007, 12:13am
I love ya Thrax but that won't fix his problem.

He just wants to get rid of the boot menu he can boot just fine? He just needs to fix the boot.ini file I think.

fixboot and fixmbr fixs a corrupt disk and solves boot problems.

He boots fine and just wants rid of the dual boot menu.

I would say just edit the boot.ini file and remove the XP entry

Cheers

Tex

Byrds6
31 Aug 2007, 12:15am
There is nothing in the boot.ini for the dual boot. Vista was different to get it to dual boot but I cant google and find anything that says how to remove the entry to allow it to be able to boot to XP

Yes I can boot into Vista just fine.

Thrax
31 Aug 2007, 12:33am
I misread, and we were both wrong.

Get a program called Vista Boot Pro, and you can edit the Vista bootloader (Which is stored on the MBR -- not boot.ini, normally accessed with BCDEDIT.EXE in vista).

Tex
31 Aug 2007, 03:05am
I beta tested most versions of longhorn? did they quiit using the boot.ini ?

Not argueing I am ASKING ya.

Cowboy

Thrax
31 Aug 2007, 03:07am
Yes, they quit using boot.ini.