I think you could get rid of those screens the way I said.
CH
"Alexey Titov" <hcalx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
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> "Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
> news:%23FiPtaJoHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>> news:eYjoesHoHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> 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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