@Jamie Hardy,
Thanks for the tip about Easybcd once I'd installed Windows 7 it worked a treat, if fact it worked so well I installed it on another computer running XP Pro and Windows 7 on a dual boot and set XP Pro as the default OS, this is where things went wrong, I lost all access to both OSs and had to run a repair on Windows 7 this brought it back to being the default but I still had no access to XP, tried everything to no avail, eventually had to do a reinstall of XP Pro, no big problem as it's only used as a test bed but it stopped me playing with Windows 7 for a while, regards, Jack.
