Change of OS from Vista to WinXp..

Hi,
I have lenovo G3000 530 laptop with vista installed. Now I want to install Windows Xp on my laptop. I heard that if I install lower version OS than pre-build OS then it would be a problem for my system or can't be installed. Is it true?
Please let me know how could I do that? I don't have Windows Xp's bootable disk and drivers disk. Please let me know also from where I can get the  drivers setup for xp?
Waiting for responses..
Thanks.

you can download drivers from here but you have to buy winxp licence.
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