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

Discussion in 'Windows XP / Older OS' started by George King, Jan 8, 2021.

  1. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    #1 George King, Jan 8, 2021
    Last edited: Sep 13, 2023
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  2. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Released first public version!
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  3. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Updated! I also added new screen with multieditions setup :)

    Code:
    08.01.2021 - v1.0.1 - Fixed generating License files for all mentioned Editions during install.wim updating
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  4. MateV

    MateV MDL Novice

    Sep 13, 2020
    14
    8
    0
    Maybe using WinNTSetup would be easier instead of patching the setup.exe?
     
  5. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    #5 George King, Jan 8, 2021
    Last edited: Jan 8, 2021
    (OP)
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  6. SuperLOL

    SuperLOL MDL Novice

    Jan 8, 2021
    2
    0
    0
    It would be better to include also all the necessary Win7 and Win10 files into the zip file as well.
     
  7. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    #7 George King, Jan 8, 2021
    Last edited: Jan 8, 2021
    (OP)
    I don't think it's allowed on this forum, just simply use your downloaded 7 & 10 ISOs. I tested it with 32bit Windows 7 SP1 with all updates + Windows 10 20H2_v2.
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  8. SuperLOL

    SuperLOL MDL Novice

    Jan 8, 2021
    2
    0
    0
    Why should that not be allowed those are public files that are available on the Microsoft website itself.
     
  9. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Because of forum rules, only what I can do is point to other topics, where are download links.
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  10. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Tool updated to v 1.1, first post updated too to fits these changes!

    Code:
    08.01.2021 - v1.1 - Added prepatched setup.exe (10.0.19041.572 from Windows 10 20H2 v2) to suppress 0xC0000005 error - Many thanks  infuscomus from Win-Raid forum
                      - Added w32uires MUI patch to get perfect setup look by removing unneded installation steps
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  11. infuscomus

    infuscomus MDL Junior Member

    Apr 25, 2020
    52
    6
    0
    @George King

    I have XP installed in a VMWare VM, how do I run wimlib on it to make a wim out of it?
     
  12. WindowsMyStyle

    WindowsMyStyle MDL Member

    May 2, 2018
    174
    66
    10
    #12 WindowsMyStyle, Jan 9, 2021
    Last edited: Jan 9, 2021
    do all updates just mean MassStorage and USB ?! (not DriversPack for Windows XP)
    Why do you need both Windows 7 and Windows 10 ISO ?! Why don't you just use an ISO?
    Great job, it would be perfect if it automatically installs all drivers like Driverpacks.net Tools does

    last thing, is it possible to add multiple languages in the boot.wim to translate the installation GUI?
    I did not understand what you need w32uires.dll.mui files in all languages ...
    if you create a SysPrep the RunOnce function I see it useless ... the SysPrep exists just for this, a clean installation without adding anything during the installation.
    in the next days I will test it ...
     
  13. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    I'm preparing Capture.cmd right now to make it easy for every one. Will be ready in few hours.


    Windows 7 is here for grab Windows 7 PE - boot files and boot.wim image 2, in new update that will be ready soon there will be also bootloader localization from files from install.wim
    Windows 10 is here to add Windows 10 setup engine to add ESD support into Windows 7 PE

    Do not add multiple languages as its useless.
    For example, I'm using Czech Windows XP that means CS in XP SP3 MSDN ISO names and egual to cs-CZ in Win7/Win10 language terminology images. So I'm using localized ISOs as input.

    Modern Windows setup engine have 5 steps during first setup phase.
    1) Copying Windows files
    2) Expanding Windows files
    3) Installing features
    4) Installing updates
    5) Finishing up

    XP2ESD uses only 3
    1) Copying Windows files
    2) Expanding Windows files
    3) Finishing up

    w32uires.dll.mui patch means to remove these unneded setup steps t make perfect look.

    I would like to add support for every langugae that mach XP as you can see at the end of first post. Like if you use RU XP upload me w32uires.dll.mui from ru-RU Windows 10 boot.wim\2\sources\ru-RU. Then I'm able to make RES patch and include it XP2ESD


    For Driverpacks - yes, this will be added in future as its in to-do list, we need to go step by step to make it Perfect :)

    Do all updates means - integrate OnePiece Update pack as is linked in first post - these packs are MultiLanguages and perfectly upgrade XP to latest version with everything you shoud need for start. See his project as it includes all released updates until 22 June 2017
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  14. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Updated to v1.2

    First post updated with new informations and download link


    Code:
    09.01.2021 - v1.2 - Added CaptureVHD.cmd for easy capturing Syspreped VHD
                      - Improved BCD localization on setup media
                      - Fixed diskpart handling for removing unnneded recovery partition created during setup
                      - Fixed generated boot.ini attributes
    
    @infuscomus CaptureVHD.cmd is ready, let me know how it goes
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  15. infuscomus

    infuscomus MDL Junior Member

    Apr 25, 2020
    52
    6
    0
    #15 infuscomus, Jan 9, 2021
    Last edited: Jan 9, 2021
    @George King

    your CaptureVHD.cmd had problems on my machine - It said it could not find some drive or path specified, and then on the Capture WIM step it got stuck and ended up in a loop, stopping it I ended up with a 250gb WIM file.
     
  16. infuscomus

    infuscomus MDL Junior Member

    Apr 25, 2020
    52
    6
    0
    #16 infuscomus, Jan 9, 2021
    Last edited: Jan 9, 2021
    @George King

    OK, got the install.wim now - ASSIGNLETTER was G for me, not X

    But now in XP2ESD_Builder I'm getting "Access is Denied" prompts when I'm running as Administrator.

    edit: It seems I mixed up my win7 and win10 ISOs
     
  17. infuscomus

    infuscomus MDL Junior Member

    Apr 25, 2020
    52
    6
    0
    @George King

    can you do an experiment to see if you can get XP to boot in UEFI mode using your installer?
     
  18. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  19. George King

    George King MDL Expert

    Aug 5, 2009
    1,846
    2,131
    60
    Updated to v1.2.1!

    This is most critical update, now is every custom step performed only after successful installation!

    Code:
    09.01.2021 - v1.2.1 - Fixed setup process when user cancel setup and target tag file handling

    Now its time to check DriverPacks and add support for it
     
    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  20. infuscomus

    infuscomus MDL Junior Member

    Apr 25, 2020
    52
    6
    0