How do you get rid of a boot screen!?

[ski]

I installed Linux a long time ago on another drive, and after I was done using it, I formatted the drive (could have been a bad move). Anyway, even with nothing on the Linux drive, the boot screen came up (boot to linux, linux some other mode, windows, floppy, etc.).

I decided to format my main drive, in hopes that this would get rid of the boot screen (and solve my other problems of hangups and memory errors in Warcraft III) and low and behold, it's still there! Where the heck is this bootup located?!? in my mobo's BIOS? should I just update it and will it wipe out the linux?

please help! thanks :bawl:

[rajatQ2]

its located in the master boot record.

format /mbr

you will need to install a new loader after that, like LILO or NTLDR.
OS installations automatically install the Loader (in case you had a new, blank HD.

[coleslaw]

fdisk /mbr

:)

[ski]

uh oh! I've already started re-installing stuff on Windows 2000 again.... can I still just boot to command line and change that... or do I have to change it first, then reinstall the OS?

Thanks guys!

[coleslaw]

It SHOULD rewrite your master boot record to the default Windows files/settings.

[ski]

I went ahead and just typed "fdisk /mbr" and it fixed it!

Thanks guys =D