my test system is a Ryzen 1600AF on a Gigabyte a320m-h board with 16GB of ram. I have successfully created a win7 x64 Windows to Go by using rufus 3.22p that boots fine from USB3. my goal is to find a way to do the same with XP x86 sp3 in order to be able to use various laptops for easy XP booting XP2ESD x86 works flawlessly on my system booting from ssd & it's an impressive piece of work
Hirens Boot CD have something like LiveXP.wim, you can start digging around this one if you still are interested.
thank you so much for your kind feedback & input. it's a good lead, I will try to test this too. I am still not quite sure on how to properly reset the XP2ESD to a clean vanilla state other that just deleting the whole directory and extracting again the package thank you
Without quietboot (disablebootdisplay) option enabled, XP will not initiate the kernel from BCD on winload (especially in UEFI mode), meaning that it hangs with a black screen.
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@Alexandros C. Couloumbis The Bsod 0X0000007E is not direct related to acpi.sys. Make a try to boot in Save Mode (F8) with an XP SP3 from Ramsey, that you have installed on another compi. Disable everything in Bios. This Bsod may be found in some USB Dietmar
According to Dell Optiplex 780 issue with older ACPI, it can be real bug in code. Otherwise 7E is used for various issues.
thank you for the feedback. I disabled anything that could be disabled in the bios without any luck. I changed the video out from hdmi to vga, booted on safe mode with exactly the same error: BSOD 0x7E(c0000005, ...) error in AcpiArbCrackPRT() when referencing null pointer unfortunately, USB can't be disabled, just the legacy option, but then I might not be able to access the bios again (no ps/2 ports on this PC) USB on this NUC gave me hard time to make it work under win7 (Intel has SO many different usb3 drivers and none ported for win7). finally, I tried Macrium redeployment tool as win8 32bit native old PC. it found missing SATA drivers for this XP system and installed (inject) them, without any luck. on other systems this method worked just fine. still I get a 7E instead of a 7B error which means that the main problem is not a missing SATA driver I am convinced that this NUC (although it gets regular bios updates from Intel) is just a quite peculiar system. Edit: about injecting drivers on a live/installed system look at this thread.
I think without setting-up debugging environment is impossible to develop fix. 7E error could be caused in various places.
Instead of using macrium, just deploy the XP image to your HDD, be sure it's bootable and all, you get error 7B (as usual since W2K was released). Then boot using Hiren's boot CD, and use the "Fix_hdc" script (it's under registry utilities, NOT under hdd or partitioning tools). In my experience it's way better than anything that Macrium attempts, not sure it will work in your case as well, but definitely worth a try.
it worked Dietmar ! in Safe Mode with networking, though my usb keyboard/mouse do not work. I have access to the network/IP but I don't know how to start ultravnc service under Safe Mode in order to remotely update the drivers under normal boot I don't get any BSOD, but it gets stack forever before the welcome screen. keyboard is responsive and cntl-alt-del works this acpi.sys also works just fine on my Ryzen a320 system too Magic Dietmar. there goes my incentive to setup a remote debug environment as George King rightfully suggested Edit: to reply to my own question, the following command did the trick: Code: reg ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\uvnc_service" /VE /T REG_SZ /F /D "Service"