Cannot access the main part of the hard drive

I am running xp Media Center on a Dell Inspiron E1505.  I wanted to be able to boot XP or 7 so I created a partition 6 GB and loaded with Windows 7.  I did not assign a letter to the partition.
I am only able to boot Windows 7 and my HDD shows that 6 GB.  I have a lot of programs and information on the other 105 GB portion, which I cannot access.  As 6 GB disk space, it shows that I have less than 32 MB of free space. n

When I click on properties for the c: drive, volume and complete, I can see the rest of the disk space assigned any letter.  What can I do to access this part and boot from XP again.

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