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    Getting entirely rid of the dual-boot screen

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Synthesia, Apr 8, 2009.

  1. Synthesia

    Synthesia Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    I installed the beta of Windows 7 and tested it out for a while on a different partition other than my main OS, Vista. However, I then wanted to use Vista only again and removed the Windows 7 partition and allocated the remaining HD space to my primary Vista partition. The problem is that I am still getting the dual boot screen.

    I loaded up the Vista Recovery DVD and in command prompt tried the: bootrec /fixmbr, and also bootrec /fixboot commands but the screen still appeared there.

    Now I did manage to reduce the appearance of the dual-boot menu to <1second and making Vista the default OS to load by going to System, Advaned System Settings, Start-up and Recovery Settings, and changing that around there.

    However this workaround is not clean enough for me and I would like to remove the dual-boot screen entirely. Anybody know how to do this? Thanks guys.
     
    Synthesia, Apr 8, 2009
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  2. LPTP-LVR

    LPTP-LVR Notebook Deity

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    google easybcd...free app which will let you fix the mbr where the OS entries are stored
     
    LPTP-LVR, Apr 8, 2009
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  3. SpeedyMods

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    Did you try opening up MSconfig and removing Windows 7 from the boot options?

    Greg
     
    SpeedyMods, Apr 8, 2009
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