I bought a Dell Inspiron 1501 2 months ago as a basic, wireless enabled laptop (Internet, Office 2000 work only). It came with Vista (no choice!). Hated Vista. To get rid of it I formatted the HD and put back XP Pro. All OK BUT no "Other devices" were installed. When I try to install manally, the wizard refuses to recognise (a) original Dell driver disc, (b) downloaded drivers from Dell website either burned onto a CD, on a USB stick or copies onto Desktop. The "OK" button is greyed out when any of these locations is chosen during driver installation. The wizard also does not show driver files in these locations. Cannot connect to internet as one of the bits of hardware without driver is Network controller. I am probably being an idiot but how do I get out of this Catch 22? I REALLY do not want to re-install Vista.

Many thanks

my computer does not install window xp because it is old computer and give error of illegal problem. please solve this prolblem thanks

mu computer has illegal problem

er i baught a inspiron 1501 in October 2007. i found it had an option but i chose vista becuase i have an XP Pro disk if i needed it.
As it came out i did need XP after all.
The drivers disk i got from dell had drivers for vista and XP so i could use them.
If you want to get those drivers go on to the Dell website and type drivers into the search bar and click 'download drivers', select the inspiron 1501 laptop then there will be all you drivers you need.

Simon of all the OSs