The main thing is to get the chipset drivers from the source. If your laptop is Intel you can get them from Intels site which will have everything if you look. If you don't know the chipset number google your laptop model. Next, if your main drive is a SATA drive like most laptops these days you'll need to download those drivers from the chipset source as well and slipstream them into a custom XP install disk, or else XP will halt installation about a quarter of the way through prompting you for SATA drivers. If your unfamiliar with creating a slipstreamed custom XP install disk, a free software called nLite makes it painlessly easy. Here's a link to that.