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

I already got factory installed .NET 4.8 ¿Do I really need to install 2.0 and 3.5 versions? I already tried and, somehow, it's somewhat difficult installing earlier versions on top of 4.8.

 

@George King
As a suggestion regarding hardware support, I think you guys sometimes should do tests to ensure that the XP installation image created by XP2ESD works to boot from modern UEFI Class 3 computers.

On older UEFI computers with CSM disabled, XP may boot more easily because of better backward compatibility with drivers (specifically referring to system-type drivers from the device manager).

I don't understand how Windows 7 works on my UEFI class 3 laptop with Int10h emulator, so I was wondering if we can try to backport over time windows 7 and windows 8's Microsoft generic system devices from the device manager that XP lacks (like UEFI-compliant system, Acpi wake alarm, ACPI power button, etc) so XP can depend less on CSM like Windows 7, basically adding some UEFI support so we can get XP to boot more easily on Intel 8th and higher processors.

Tbh I am not concerned about Int10h very much because the VGA requirement can be fixed by using an Int10h emulator like FlashBoot or UefiSeven (perhaps videoprt.sys from windows 7 should be backported in order to boot from winload.exe on bios because on UEFI it works with VmWare/VirtualBox using FlashBoot).

Below, these are the drivers used by Windows 11 on my laptop but maybe we can backport from windows 7 and windows 8 system-device type drivers with versions up to 6.2 so they can be modified using CFF explorer to point to ntoskrn8.sys instead of ntoskrnl.exe (and then fixing the checksum by re-opening the file in CFF explorer and activating the checksum checkbox on the rebuild tab OR using any checksum exe program to refresh the checksum).

If dependency services (listed in services.msc, but 3rd party serviwin.exe gives more details) for the driver are missing or refuse to start due to incomplete driver dependencies, 0x7E BSODs can appear especially when driver signature enforcement is disabled (if driver signature enforcement is enabled, windows will load but the OS will automatically block the driver from loading due to it causing problems, I experienced this on Windows 7).

 

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Why can't I use VENTOY?
It works well with me.

 

But I successfully installed XP2ESD ISO with ventoy.
No error reported.
OK, I'll use rufus next time and see what the difference is.

 

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Hi George, finally i reached to complete, two times, the building of SP2EXD, one with ESD and another with WIM, both of them worked perfectly in Virtualbox, however, both of them, in my laptop, showed an error dialog box with the following text "Windows could not collect information for [OSImage] since the specified image file [X:\sources "\noreboot] does not exist".
I guess I saw a field in "config.ini" regarding drive letter X ¿Could this be the issue?.

PD. I used only Rufus 3.14 to lay the iso image in a usb pendrive.

 

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Likely.

I never used Grub4dos for UEFI in my life nor I own a UEFI only system. So I can't confirm or deny on the field.

That would be awesome, likely that would make SVbus (or firadisk, or WinVblock) superfluous, while making possible to boot not just from fixed size VHDs but also dynamic expanding ones. Also if the driver would come from win8 VHDX could be usable as well, something that would be beneficial not just for XP and Vista but also Win7 (given the latter understands VHDs but not VHDXs)

 

Hi dear friend, I have "fr_it_es_windows_multilingual_user_interface_x64_cd.iso" is possible to integrate ?

 

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@George King On setup.cmd, when building winload bcds, make sure add there the option to disable GUI boot ("quietboot on") on winload otherwise XP from install.wim will not boot from winload.

 

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kind of, at the end it boils down to you (silently) installing the MSI file(s) from the root directory of the MUI installer files/disc (see MUI readme files), be it before the image capturing process or after initial deployment of the wim image during xp2esd's runonceex setup phase.
But do not expect MUI support to be as refined as in Windows Vista and later. Furthermore, you might need Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 11 MUIs, the latter of which might not even be archived on the web.

 

So far after trying this, I only see the mouse cursor and the bliss background, nothing else.