Can someone help me with my problem!

I bought a new dell inspiron laptop and it came with windows vista, but i would rather have windows XP on it i I inserted the disk and booted the computer and i get to the point were it says press c to create partition when i do it gives me a message saying unable to locate c drive or something like that, i was wondering is there a way around this so i can put xp on my laptop, or am i stuck with vista.
Also does this mean i have a problem with my laptop or it's not working right or did dell make it where it was a windows vista only.
Thanks
Stoney84

 

I have a dell inspiron 1420 and a 1720. thanks for replying.

 

thanks for are your help, i am glad there are people out there that are willing to help other people that need it thanks again

 

Care.. some of these dell machines have been made in a "locked to fista" way with a hidden system partition which contains amongst other things the bios routines and settings. deleting this partition if there will cause a no boot machine.... forever, unless you can get a dump of the partition from an identical machine. (compaq used the same trick in a lot of the win98 deskpro machines, as do acer on some lappys.. though those only seem to contain bois settings and hardware drivers.)

The solution is to dump and edit certain parts of the device ID within those routines and trick the hardware into believing it is getting fista even when it is not.

I charge big bucks for working on these nasty drm riddled machines, so I'm not going to reveal the full methods of hacking the bios OS verification and drivers for free in the open. When people hear my price they usually just screw up the machines and either claim on the insurance or take them back broken.. messed up blue screen fista.. and demand a refund not replacement.

The linux community gave me the leads to cracking it