need some help with this laptop dual partition

ok guys i have a dell latitude (dino) laptop and i bought it off my dad and he swears that their is more than one operating system on this.....now ive been building and playing around with computers for a lot of years now and i havent found it yet. he said this thing has windows 2000 profesinal and windows xp home. now normaly if a computer has 2 operating systems it gives u a choice at boot.....well not this one it goes straight into xp. i have dune every thing short of slapping in a windows disk and getting to the partition set up just to see is it has a seprate partition. but i dont want to loose any thing on either os if it even has another os b/c he wants the pics of the two towers and the statue of liberty that he took two days befor nine elevin. so can u help me out and tell mke if their is another way to go about all this????? thanks for your time and have a wonderfull day guys.:confused

 

You can look at the partition structure in XP Home without risking anything or booting to the CD.

Start > Run, type diskmgmt.msc, OK

If it has more than one Primary partition your dad might be right.

 

thank u very much. that helped me a bunch, their is only one primary partition. thats what i thought. thanku that was a big help earthling.:-D