[TOOL] XP2ESD - Create modern Windows XP installer v1.6.2

@George King Wow! This custom mouse tutorial is new, unheard of, and interesting! :O
I hope some options regarding choosing themes, wallpapers, and other mouse cursors will be considered soon.

 

I understand now. However, I started to notice a lot of empty spaces (especially in the pages with the picture frame) that could be filled with more detailed text so that it looks more like the official pages.

 

Well, with the way it looks, it's quite easy to tell that these hidden pages weren't intended to be public by Microsoft.

 

@nlgxzef Perhaps when XP2ESD 1.6.3 gets released, maybe you should do a video on YouTube about testing and reviewing XP2ESD 1.6.3.
XP2ESD has changed a lot in comparison to version 1.5.6, so by reviewing the newest version and the new changes, users will become more curious and interested in XP2ESD.

 

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I'll do it. Waiting for v1.6.3 to release.

 

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@George King For easy customization, in my case, I decided to add bootice inside XP wim in system32, and in OOBE folder from ISO.
I also added serviwin, devmanview, driverview, so I can customize system files, services, device drivers and show drivers currently used to boot from memory.
Just so you know.
I don't know if this is necessary for the end-user to have, but it makes it easier to customize BCD boot, system drivers (including any offline windows OS), and device manager entries (including any offline windows OS). You won't have to constantly restart from XP to the host OS to configure everything on XP, it can also be done from the XP OS to save time.
I already explained to you in earlier posts what devmanview is capable of, so perhaps you can use that same tool (from host OS) to see if the backport ported drivers are installed properly on XP (try to do this especially when you encounter problems with XP freezing during winload boot). You know for testing purposes (reminds me of WinDBG).

 

I tried to get XP installed from XP2ESD modern installer directly into a another partition of my drive to try to get it boot from BCD on UEFI Class 3 and it froze (boot crash is disabled). Right now, this is another installation (finished) that I have done on VirtualBox and I copied the contents directly to the partition to try to get it to boot on my laptop.
If boot crash is enabled, it would restart after few seconds of initiating boot screen (former installation).
If I try to backport acpiex.sys (with missing imports), I would receive instantly on Boot that an Unexpected error occurred (it happened on another XP installation on the same partition).
The bsod happened at one of the earliest boot stages. But because of there's no gui boot (otherwise it will be stuck on a endless black screen), I can't see the BSOD, so I have to try to mess around with the drivers using devmanview to try to find and spot the problem.
On offline windows, devman can't install or uninstall drivers, but I can enable or disable them (or edit them from regedit).
Editing from entries using devmanview on offline windows, will change the contents from the Enum folder from the offline system hive (for the system drivers and services, use Serviwin).
I have disabled some of the device drivers manually (both sys driver and device manager entry using the same two tools) to disable VirtualBox Guest Additions on real hardware.

 

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@George King I managed to add Windows XP's logo icon to the bitmap Windows banner (for xpwizimg.dll) over the same picture so XP2ESD's setup has XP's logo instead of Vista/7's logo.
If this looks ok, can you please add it to resources 409 and 411 from the folder bitmap on xpwizimg.dll using resource hacker?

 

This is what XP2ESD setup looks like with Windows XP's logo.

 

This logo might look nicer than I thought it would help to indicate which version of Windows is being installed.

 

@George King I finally understood why BootPartition doesn't work, on setup.cmd you forgot to replicate the same BCD codes (for legacy and UEFI) on U:\ partition (when bootpartition is enabled). The code from legacy BCD is only replicated on UEFI with bootpartition set to no.
That's why it doesn't work when I tried to boot on XP with this option enabled on settings.ini, because the BCD is unaltered.

 

The fix for BootPartition, this code should work. If not, then It can always be improvised to fix more problems.
I decided to also include the codes between my edits so you can see more clearly where to put the code.

Spoiler

REM Winload option - updated to support BootPartition
if exist "%TARGET%\Windows\system32\winload.exe" (
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} description "%Version%" >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} device partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} path \windows\system32\winload.exe >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} osdevice partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} systemroot \Windows >nul
rem if "%ModernBoot%" == "Yes" (
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} detecthal no >nul
rem ) else (
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} detecthal yes >nul
rem )
REM Disable detect hal feature - TEST
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} detecthal no >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} pae default >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} ems off >nul

bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} winpe >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} ems >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} pae >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} detecthal >nul

rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} winpe yes >nul

bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} nointegritychecks yes >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} quietboot on >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} integrityservices disable >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} TESTSIGNING ON >nul

rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS >nul

REM Settings for x64 boot? - TEST
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {default} DisableBootDisplay True >nul
if /i "%BootPartition%" == "Yes" (
if /i "%UEFI%" == "0" (
if /i "%ModernUEFIBoot%" == "0" (
if "U:\boot" not exist ( md "U:\boot" )
if "U:\boot\bcd" not exist ( copy /y "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" "U:\boot\bcd" )
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} description "%Version%" >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} device partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} path \windows\system32\winload.exe >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} osdevice partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} systemroot \Windows >nul

bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} winpe >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} ems >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} pae >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /deletevalue {default} detecthal >nul

bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} nointegritychecks yes >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} integrityservices disable >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS >nul

bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {default} quietboot on >nul
)
) else (
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} path \windows\system32\winload.efi >nul
rem bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} novesa on >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} quietboot on >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} bootlog yes >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} bootstatuspolicy IgnoreAllFailures >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} nx OptIn >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} device partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} osdevice partition=%TARGET% >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} systemroot \Windows >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} nointegritychecks yes >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} description "%Version%" >nul

REM Enable debugging
rem bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} debug on >nul
rem bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} debugtype 1394 >nul
rem bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} channel 10 >nul

bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /deletevalue {default} winpe >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /deletevalue {default} ems >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /deletevalue {default} pae >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /deletevalue {default} detecthal >nul

bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {bootmgr} path \efi\microsoft\boot\bootmgfw.efi >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {bootmgr} device partition=U: >nul
)
)
) else (
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /delete {default} >nul
)


REM NTLDR option
if exist "%TARGET%\Windows\system32\winload.exe" (
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /create {ntldr} /d "%Version% Legacy" >nul
) else (
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /create {ntldr} /d "%Version%" >nul
)


REM UEFI boot support
rem if exist "%DRIVE%\sources\$OEM$\$$\system32\winload.efi" (

REM Recreate partition for UEFI boot

REM echo select disk %DID% > %DiskPartScript%
REM echo create partition primary >> %DiskPartScript%
REM echo active >> %DiskPartScript%
REM echo format fs=fat32 quick >> %DiskPartScript%
REM echo asign letter=U >> %DiskPartScript%
REM "%WinDir%\System32\diskpart.exe" /s "%DiskPartScript%" >nul
REM del /q /s %DiskPartScript% >nul


REM md "U:\EFI\Boot"

REM if exist "%TARGET%\Windows\SysWow64" (
REM copy "%SystemDrive%\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi" "U:\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi"
REM ) else (
REM copy "%SystemDrive%\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi" "U:\EFI\Boot\bootia32.efi"
REM )

REM md U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\Fonts
REM xcopy "%DRIVE%\boot\fonts\*" "U:\boot\fonts\" /s /i /y

REM copy /y "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD"

REM bcdedit /store "U:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD" /set {default} path \windows\system32\winload.efi

rem )





REM Disable integrity checks and allow unsigned drivers setup
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS >nul

rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} integrityservices disable >nul

bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} nointegritychecks yes >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} TESTSIGNING ON >nul

bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {ntldr} device partition=%TARGET% >nul
rem bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {ntldr} device boot >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /set {ntldr} path \ntldr >nul
bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast >nul



bcdedit /store "%TARGET%\boot\bcd" /timeout 5 >nul

if /i "%BootPartition%" == "Yes" (

if exist "%TARGET%\Windows\system32\winload.exe" (
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /create {ntldr} /d "%Version% Legacy" >nul
) else (
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /create {ntldr} /d "%Version%" >nul
)
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {bootmgr} nointegritychecks yes >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {ntldr} device partition=U: >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /set {ntldr} path \ntldr >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast >nul
bcdedit /store "U:\boot\bcd" /timeout 5 >nul

)

EDIT: Don't use this code yet! This is incomplete, let me test further just in case!