IMPORTANT I NEED HELP AND YOU DO TO i was reading what ya said and i wanted to try and i got it to work. you dont have to do that if you have windows xp and longhorn installed i was able to remove that boot menu hehe i'll show you guys unless you give me this line from ur boot menu: My boot.ini: boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT i need at least one of you guys to paste ur so i know how to configure Longhorn. i deleted the Longhorn boot from my boot.ini and i never formated the longhorn partition and its still installed so i cant get to it anymore. im missing the longhorn part and i never saved it so i need you guys to paste ur boot.ini STEPS 1. Right Click on "My Computer" 2. Go to "Properties" 3. Go to "Advanced" tab 4. Go down to where it says "Startup and Recovery" and hit the "Settings" button 5. Change default Operating system back to XP or whatever OS you want 6. After that hit the "Edit" Button. it should open up the boot.ini 7. Remove the "Longhorn" multiboot part and save it 8. Restart and there you go no annoying boot menu at the pc restart, NO REFORMAT OR ANYTHING TO YOUR FIRST OS INSTALLED WORKED FOR ME AND I CAN'T GET TO THE BOOT MENU TO CHOOSE MY OS AND I WANT TO RUN LONGHORN AGAIN. THNX and test if it works AND A COMMENT WOULD BE GREAT!!!!