remove dual boot menu

Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

You can either boot to a recovery console using XP's CD, and use the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
-OR-
You can go to Control Panel> System> System Properties> Advanced> Startup & Recovery. There you will see an option that has the default OS and a time for selecting the default. Set that time to 0 or uncheck the box.
Hope this helps!
--------------------------------------------------------------- Dustin Harper http://www.overclockersrip.net
"Brian" wrote in message

Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

You can use BCDedit or download and use VistaBootPro (much easier). The Vista boot options screen is new and does not use the boot.ini file. The BCD store is probably stored on your XP system partition and removing the Vista partition may not affect it.
"Brian" wrote in message

Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:30:54 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

You can use BCDedit or download and use VistaBootPro (much easier). The Vista boot options screen is new and does not use the boot.ini file. The BCD store is probably stored on your XP system partition and removing the Vista partition may not affect it.

I can tell you from experience that you are correct -- removing a Vista partition does not affect a BCD store on the boot partition.

"Brian" wrote in message Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

Hello
Edit the boot.ini . You can do it in Notepad as an example
-- Daphne
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"Brian" wrote in message

Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

Editing the boot.ini is not going to help because BCD doesn't point to the boot.ini
If Vista is still installed: Throw the dvd in the drive and type X:\Boot\ Bootsect.exe -NT52 All Where X: = your dvd drive letter Restart the pc and NTLDR should load boot.ini instead of bcd Then just flatten the partition that Vista is installed on.
If Vista is already removed: Boot from the XP cd to recovery console In recovery console type fixboot <enter> Then fixmbr <enter> Restart Do the dance of joy as XP boots up sans bcd ;)
"Daphne Foldes" wrote in message Hello
Edit the boot.ini . You can do it in Notepad as an example
-- Daphne
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"Brian" wrote in message

Hello!
How can I remove the dual boot menu right after the BIOS start up? I plan on formatting my vista partition and I want to remove the OS selection menu.
Thanks, Brian

Dustin Harper advised: ....

You can go to Control Panel> System> System Properties> Advanced Startup & Recovery. There you will see an option that has the default OS and a time for selecting the default. Set that time to 0 or uncheck the box. ....

You do this in Vista, don't you - so you leave the Vista Boot device untouched but make it invisible; the computer will visibly boot into the XP boot manager (if there is one, as on my PCs) and/or into XP, resp.
Then, successfully having booted into XP, you delete the partition where Vista is installed (after saving all telephone numbers and love e-mails, of course;-).
Correct?
Roy