To install Windows XP on slightly modern hardware like I am (Ivy Bridge, SATA hard drives, etc), you will need to use a different program to that usually recommended; Rufus. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to create a bootable USB drive with the XP SP3 iso I was using.
Instead I had to use: https://www.winsetupfromusb.com/
And after mounting my XP iso, simply pointed it at the drive and let it do it's thing. After about 10 mins the flash drive was ready to use, complete with any drivers XP might need to recognise a non-IDE hard drive. Neat.
My next task was to find drivers, or their XP equivalents, wherever I could.
The Vostro 270s was released in 2012 with Windows 7, so Dell don't even supply XP drivers. It's a case of identifying the hardware, and then finding the XP drivers individually.
Fortunately it didn't take too long -
That's intel chipset drivers for the B75 Express, Realtek GbE LAN drivers, Realtek Sound Drivers, Dell nVidia Quadro drivers, and the last are drivers for the Dell Wireless 1506 card included (sidenote, they don't actually work - if you try to connect to a wireless network, XP bluescreens, one to try and fix at some point).
Initially I installed some later nVidia drivers (321.01) but these gave me weird artifacts in FS2004. The Dell drivers are 270.71 from 2011 and work much better.
With these ready on a couple of USB sticks it was time to go; simply plug the XP SP3 USB drive in and let the install run as normal, it's just a case of using the Auto-detect option (1) in the GUB4DOS menu that appears before XP installation will start:
After that it's plain sailing just as we did 20 years ago.
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