Hit me up via pm if you need something from there or if you want BA access. Such ridiculousness should not get in the way of this project.
@George King I just had a painful time getting the XP2ESD temp files to delete themselves from my failed attempt, couldn't even delete as administrator something went wrong with permissions.
try to take ownership of the files, if this does not work, then boot a linux live environment and do it that way
Be sure there are no mounted images in temp folder. If you are on 7 or newer host, you can check it using NTLite and umount them If they are still mounted - this should happends If you terminate process on Upgrading setup engine phase.
That's not true. If you have something to contribute such as abandonware software/OS/game which is at least 10 years old or a beta version of them regardless of the age, then you don't have to pay anything. Also simply paying/donating will not get you FTP Access.
After some wrangling I got the files to delete. edit: OK XP install done, now hopefully the rest succeeds.
Is there a specific version of win7/win10 install media I should be using? my windows 7 is an MSDN ISO 7601.24214.180801-1700.win7sp1_ldr_escrow_CLIENT_ULTIMATE_x86FRE_en-us.iso I grabbed a win10 1803 x86 iso using windows ISO downloader since I thought 21H2 might be too new.
Both should be OK for XP2ESD process. Don't forget to unmount images as I mentioned in post 924. Your symptoms are caused by badly mounted and unmounted images. Even with deleted TEMP\boot you still need to unmount them