How To Downgrade Vista for XP on Dell Inspiron M1530 (Incl Drivers)
Do you want to installing XP in Dell Inspiron M1530, This XP installation won’t erase Vista installation on your laptop (dual booting) follow this simple step.
a. Partition your hard drive
b. Install windows Xp using your new partition
c. After installing XP, you may find that your Vista bootloader has been overwritten by XP, but don’t worry it will be fixed easily.
d. Download Below Dell Inspiron M1530 Driver for XP
Driver Part 1:
Windows XP Driver for Dell Inspiron M1530 Part 1 (100Mbyte)
Driver Part 2: Windows XP Driver for Dell Inspiron M1530 Part 2 (28 Mbyte)
All of above driver will install Inspiron M1530 part:
- Video Graphics M1530 driverc
- Chipset M1530
- Sound Audio for Inspiron M1530
- etc. (unfortunately, there’s no XP bluetooth driver for Dell Inspiron M1530 in the package)
updated: I’ve got bluetooth driver that can works on XP environment.
Xp Driver for M1530: Bluetooth Driver
Now, Windows XP has been installed on your notebooks, for configuring XP and Vista for dual booting you may try Easybcd, download it from here:
Configuring Windows XP and Vista on Dell Inspiron M1530
This great article taken from dell community
January 9th, 2009 12:17
How To Downgrade Vista for XP on Dell Inspiron 1521 (Incl Drivers)
December 8th, 2009 21:22
I know how it done.i already successful downgrade vista to xp.if you want the sample copy of my xp disk i modify,please contact vanomaser@hotmail.com