Installing windows xp on DELL XPS 1530

Restart and Press F2 to get into the BIOS. Follow these steps, or else the XP CD will refuse to detect your Hard Disk. (The arrow keys the tab key and the enter key are what you need to work with the BIOS. Pressing Enter on any section’s name with a “+” next to its name expands it. You will need to expand the 2nd section to get to the options mentioned below.)

Go to the section called SATA Operation and select the ATA option in place of AHCI.

Go to the Flash Cache Module section and select OFF in place of Enabled.

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DO NOT FORMAT UR DELL WITH ANY OTHER EXTERNAL SOFTWARES. BOOT WITH UR "DELL MEDIA DIRECT CD" WHICH HAS A QUICK FORMAT OPTION

After formatting it ..Ur OS cd/dvd will be asked to be inserted into ur drive...... Then u can vrooooom thro' just like that...
Here r all the drivers u need to install XP on ur DELL INSPIRON 1420

CHIPSET : http://rapidshare.com/files/123731829/mobile_chipset.rar
ETHERNET DRIVER : http://rapidshare.com/files/122281346/marvell.zip
DELL WIRELESS 1390 : http://rapidshare.com/files/122289309/WiFi.zip
SIGMATEL AUDIO : http://rapidshare.com/files/122287679/sigmatel.zip
TOUCH PAD : http://rapidshare.com/files/122281728/Touchpad.zip
INTEGRATED WEBCAM : http://rapidshare.com/files/122288845/webcam.zip

SYSTEM UTILITY DRIVERS : http://rapidshare.com/files/122288440/Sys_Util.zip
BLUETOOTH : http://rapidshare.com/files/122278377/Bluetooth.zip
FINGER PRINT READER : http://rapidshare.com/files/122279330/fingerprint.zip
NVIDIA : http://rapidshare.com/files/122286307/nvid.zip
DELL QUICK SET : http://rapidshare.com/files/122286979/Qset.zip
REMOTE CONTROL : http://rapidshare.com/files/122287138/remote.zip

Enjoi playin more games and high system speed...
and most importantly stop shitting with VISTA!!!!!

If yu wanna download all the drivers in an instance (2 really )
http://www.mediafire.com/?7hwmn4yfjw2
http://www.mediafire.com/?f52jzgdv1ln