Step 1 Go into the BIOS of your notebook and disable the SATA support for the hard disk. This will make the hard disk just a little bit slower, but it will enable you to install Windows XP without the need of drivers during the installation process. If you have a Windows XP cd that has the SATA driver included this step is not neccessary. Also set in the BIOS that the first device to boot from is the cd and not the hard drive.
Step 2 Start the m1330 with the Windows XP cd in the drive. In the Windows installation program you can choose on which partition you want to install the operation system on. I have just deleted all existing partitions and created on new one that is as big as you the whole internal hard drive. After creating the partitions just install Windows as you would normally do.
Step 3 After the installation of Windows is done you will need all kinds of driver to make the m1330 run with Windows XP. Without the driver really nthing except the touchpad, the cd drive and the keyboard will work.
Download all these drivers:
Intel Mobile Chipset
nVidia graphic card drivers
Card reader
Ethernet network driver
Ethernet network utility
Touch pad
Fingerprint reader
Wi-Fi drivers
Bluetooth
Sound chip
Dell Quickset
Latest Windows DirectX drivers
Carefu When you doloaded the grafic card drivers unzip the package first to a folder on your hard disk. Now replace the .inf file from the driver with the one offered on the driver's download page
Step 4 After installing all the drivers on your system the Dell XPS m1330 should work fine with Windows XP.