failed dual boot. Options

[Maccabee]

I wanted to dual boot windows xp and linux mint, so I ran the mint live cd and used the partition editor to shrink the main partition by 8gb. I then installed linux mint in that unallocated 8gb. I thought I would next restart my computer and have a black screen with white text, and I would choose linux mint, or windows xp. But instead there was a linux mint screen that had one option for linux mint, one option for linux mint safe mode and two options for windows xp. So I chose the first one, and it started a hard drive restore?! So finally when it was done it started asking me the questions that it asks when you first install xp! So I did everything and when it got to the desktop it looked like it did when I first got it! Thankfully my files were intact though...

So what happened? And how do I get into linux mint? Because my hard drive is now 8gb smaller. When I restart it boots straight into xp? So what did I do run and how do I fix it?

[Maccabee]

Its the same process that you use to dual boot ubuntu. What distro do you use?
Read again. I said I can't get into mint. when I turn on my computer it goes straight to windows. And I dont know how to modify a bootloader.