Yea, what I was referring to was where it prompts you at boot-up as to which OS you wish to run. I know for a fact my most recent HS had computers that did that--it was the same situation, you could choose either WinXPHome or Win2kPro. But that was also a school's IT that was able to set that up.
The main reason why I'm trying to use Win2kPro is because initially, I had installed WinXp Pro on here. After becoming dissatisfied with the random flaws and slowed performance, I used the recovery CD to do a standard recovery. In the process, my protected user folder became inaccessible. I had encountered a situation like this before on a Win2kPro compy, and I was able to reconfigure the file permissions so I could access them (in that situtation, I was using a slave from a different computer, and again, my files weren't shared with other users). So theoretically, I can do the same with this batch of files that can't be accessed due to restricted permissions.
So, alternatively: Is there a way to set file permissions in WinXP Home (or maybe in DOS), or would I need a more complex OS such as Win2kPro?