# how to remove the lilo dual boot screen?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-the-lilo-dual-boot-screen/373223>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 18, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-the-lilo-dual-boot-screen/373223 "2006-09-18T20:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chew\_Barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Chew\_Barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chew_Barker)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-the-lilo-dual-boot-screen/373223/1 "2006-09-18T20:12:27Z")

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The problem is I used to dual boot, my disk was split into a windows xp partition and a mandriva linux partition.

Now I have formated the linux partition and use this as a windows logical drive.

Although every time I reboot I still get the linux lilo boot screen asking me which operating system to boot, default is what it thinks is linux but when it doesnt find it, I get looped back to this screen. Im sick of pressing down, down, return to boot to XP.

Can you help me boot straight to xp ? (without setting it as default in lilo)

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-the-lilo-dual-boot-screen/373223/2 "2006-09-18T20:14:14Z")

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Boot the XP install CD, go into the recovery console, and type ‘fixmbr’.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-the-lilo-dual-boot-screen/373223/3 "2006-09-19T16:08:09Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> Boot the XP install CD, go into the recovery console, and type ‘fixmbr’.

I’ll add on here with a similar question - how do you remove the dual boot screen on a 98SE machine? I tried to install a dual boot with XP, but it failed (after googling “Abit BE6 Windows XP” I’ve decided to give up). So now I no longer have XP installed on a partition, but I still have the dual boot screen trying to load XP.