Hello Chad
I mean it shows those screens before the Windows Boot Manager.
Both XP and Vista load fine, its just those screens don't look good
And what does it - rewrites MBR every time?
"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Alexi--
>
> "Grubfordos" without Linux--why is it in the mix?
>
> From your post, you can still boot fine to either OS but you don't want
> the annoyances of these screens flashing. I assume when you installed
> Vista alongside XP, that Vista was added after XP as it should be.
>
> You removed Vista the way MSFT recommends in this MSKB:
>
> Windows Vista no longer starts after you install an earlier version of the
> Windows operating system in a dual-boot configuration
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529/en-us
>
> I'm not sure of the source of these screens that flash by, and I assume
> they are flashing by on the way to successfully booting to either OS since
> you failed to mention you can't but confused me when you said
>
> "Only XP left and load was fine. Recently I installed Vista final version
> and got those screens." Does this really mean that you installed Vista
> and got those screens but never were able to boot to Vista after
> installing it again?
>
> Try using Vista Boot Pro 3.2 www.vistabootpro.org (tutorial on the site)
>
> Good luck,
>
> CH
>
>
>
> "Alexey Titov" <hcalx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello
>>
>> In brief, my problem is that i have a dual-boot pc (xp+vista) and when
>> loading, before the regular choice to select the OS to boot, 3 or 4
>> screens of some loader appear for a very short amount of time:
>> 1. Booting GRLDR ...
>> Resetting the boot drive ... success
>> Turning on gate A20 ... success
>> ... some more text ...
>> 2. ... some text ...
>> 3. GRUB4DOS and a window (DOS graphics) with options to load Windows
>> 2000, XP and Vista.
>> 4. ... some more text ...
>>
>> They flicker fast and don't require any choices from me - but still, it
>> doen't look nice.
>> How do I hide them? And still have working XP and Vista, of course
>>
>> I never used any other OS loader like Partition Commander or any ...
>> What I did: few month ago I installed Vista along with XP, and then
>> removed Vista.
>> I didn't like the boot selector that remained and used this command:
>> 'e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force' to remove Vista from MBR (found
>> over Internet)
>> It had removed boot selector. Only XP left and load was fine. Recently I
>> installed Vista final version and got those screens.
>> Can any1 help please?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
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