Thank you for the information.  I contacted our Dell rep who replied that they, (Dell) would not provide us with XP support for the new latitudes.  That being said, we've dropped the XP option for these models, (which if fine by me).  I've spent way too much time with this already.  Now I can concentrate on the rest of my job. Thanks again, -Ray
I'm new to this forum so forgive, (and advise) if I should post this somewhere else.  In our environment, we're running SCCM 2007 R3 for OSD. The problem I am having is this: The "XP mass storage controller drivers" provided in the XP CAB file for the E6430, E6530 models are not working, (for me).  They are: RAID (Device ID is VEN_8086&DEV_282A…) Driver – "Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller" Model - "Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller" AHCI (Device ID is VEN_8086&DEV_1E03…) Driver - "Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller" Model - "Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller" Has anyone been able to deploy XP to the new latitudes using the above drivers? On my machines, the BIOS is set to factory defaults.  We are a DELL shop and I have incorporated numerous models into our environment without issue.  There are no issues when deploying Win7 but I'm finding no joy adding the new  models to my XP task sequence.  If I need to provide more information, please advise. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
mass storage controller drivers for the Exx30 series latitudes...