A Solution to removing the OS boot menu after vista removal
Jun 30, 2006 Tech
So, you’ve installed vista, played around with it and its all great, new and good, but now your bored of it and want to reclaim your disk space back, so you boot into windows XP (by selecting it from the boot menu) and proceed to format the drive Vista is on. On rebooting you discover your boot menu still exists! what is one to do?! Well here for your please is a possible solution :p
- Turn on your PC
- Insert your XP CD, yes the one you install from
- Choose the option to go into the recovery console
- choose which installation you would like to “login” to, in most cases this will be “1″
- after typing that in, along with the administrator password, your at prompt similar to this:
C:\WINDOWS>
- your next step is to type either of the following commands: fixboot OR fixmbr
- once thats finished and you have a success message you can restart
Note: Choose to boot from CD if asked
The menu should now be gone and you should be booted into XP automatically
There may be other ways of fixing it, but this is the one ive, used.
Post any questions etc in the comments 
Vista beta 2 resources, how NOT to steal a sidekick, other random stuff
Well Vista Beta 2 (aka build 5384.4) has been released to the public, so i thought id post a list of resources
download from here: (official ms link)
(a download manager is recommended when downloading)
http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm
mirrors:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/browse/DesktopManagement/OperatingSystems
http://rapidshare.de/users/933H49
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=vista+5384.4&ext=&op=and
(make sure you check the size before downloading)
or here for the direct x86 link (“official” ms link) http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/preview/beta2/en/x86/iso/vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x86fre_client-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso (3.12GB)
how to get a vista key “early”: http://bartysblog.be/content/get-your-windows-vista-beta-2-keys-early
MSBlog: (source) http://www.msblog.org/?p=746
plenty of links there to get you started 
although the MS servers are getting hammered i would say to try a mirror, but there is no guarantee that the mirrors are “ok”.. (virus free etc)
And now for the sidekick story…
http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/
its pretty long, but if your bored :p
click here too to digg the link http://digg.com/technology/How_NOT_to_steal_a_Sidekick
=)
also had a few things going on this week, i started coding my own CMS on monday and its going pretty well, up to now i would consider it to be in “beta 1″ stage.. its fairly stable, but has quite a lot of features missing, I have most of the intended features coded, they just need either finishing, testing or implementing, I probably wont use it when its done because, im only doing this for fun really and to learn, and ive learnt quite a bit about SQL over the past few days, I never thought id do that, it always seemed to complicated so i just stuck to flat text files, which kind of suck compared..lol, anyways, theres also my revamped guestbook script that im still in the middle of working on, and then theres the jobscript which I still need to do a few formatting tweaks to and a few backend bits… oh and create a gui for the letter creator and add some more features / options, although thats a while away yet
anyway (grr i keep saying that, maybe its the new ‘lol’) bye for now 