Lenovo recovery boot screen

Hi,
I just downgraded to XP Pro (dual boot with Windows 7) my N200 0769, erasing recovery partition with Vista and re-partitioning HD. All is working perfectly, but there is the Lenovo recovery screen when I boot the laptop. Obviously I can't recover it more (and I wouldn't be fool enough to re-load all that bloatware even if I could), so how to get rid of that screen now, it is getting on my nerves
Please help me with that who can
Thanks.
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Message Edited by Agotthelf on 17-03-2009 01:47 PM

I figured this out from bios, so solved.
And I don't want put out here my personal information, I had no idea this is mandatory to do, I will go elsewhere for futher questions, thank you, you can delete my account here.
Message Edited by heliotropia on 03-17-2009 11:31 AM

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