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Uninstalling Vista RC1 from seperate Hard Drive ???

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I have two hard drives on my computer and I installed Vista onto one of them. I formatted that hard drive as I wanted to uninstall Vista but when starting up my computer it still shows the 'choose OS' screen.
How can I get rid of this screen?

p.s. I have already gone to the msconfig screen and checked all the boot paths, it says everything's correct. I think this might be because I installed Vista on a seperate H drive ??
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I run Vista but didn't use its boot loader in the MBR. I read somewhere about MS changed the boot loader in Vista. If this is the case then NTLDR of XP may has been overpowered, or the user does not realise it is the same screen used by XP.

The fixmbr should restore XP back.
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sisalto,

That is a XP's own boot.ini that should remian operational after the removal of Vista, right?

Why do you suddenly want to remove it? People normally specify the timeout, which is currently set to 0, so short that it just flashes in a split second before booting up XP.
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