Dual booting problems

wet-paint

Hey there,
I'm running Vista on a new Dell Dimension, and I went to install XP pro from a copy of the dell boot cd.

It came pre partitioned already, Vista on a 310GB partition, and a recovery partition of 10GB. I wiped the ten gig one, and installed XP there. I was presuming that I'd get an option to choose which OS I want to load when I turn it on, but it's just loading XP, and the setup screen ain't giving me an option of which partition to load first, it only lets me choose the drive itself over the dc-rom drive, USB port etc.
So the question is, how do I get it to let me boot either OS?

Also, I found that it won't connect to the net(NIC drivers I presume), and the audio drivers didn't come with XP, I was under the impression that I didn't need driver cds for XP.

Any advice welcome.
If it's totallt FUBAR, it's no big deal, as I'm using the laptop now, and I haven't used the desktop at all, so there's not much lost if I have to format stuff.
Cheers guys,
WP.

Diver79

Dont quote me on this but I believe you need to install the oldest OS first. That would mean wiping Vista, installing XP and then installing Vista.

Can anyone confirm this?

wet-paint

My old desktop has Win200 and XP home running on it, and XP was installed later, and it works, which supports your theory, but it might just be coincidence. Also, it was done by someone who knows what he's doing.