Thank you so much for this detailed tutorial! I had spent the last two weeks and hours and hours of research and attempts to get XP back on my PC. I've gotten the vintage bug and decided to pull out my old Dell Dimension 8400 Pentium 4. At some point in the past I had installed Windows 7 over XP and I wanted XP back on the hard drive. I believe the SATA drivers were my biggest obstacle. The first time I followed your tutorial I got to a point where the drive wasn't detected. I decided to format the thumb drive and follow your steps more carefully the second time. Sure enough, I didn't unpack the Easy2boot contents onto the thumb drive the first time properly. The second time everything went much smoothly and I'm proud to say I'm looking at a fresh XP desktop! I can't wait to fire up some old games on it now, so thank you!
Honestly, Thank you! I was stuck with this issue for several days but it turns out that all along I was searching for solutions to problems I did not have. Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!! I have spent my entire day attempting to load XP onto a Dell Mini 1011. I used another all-in-one utility that was supposed to make it easy. After about 10 attempts thinking that I was messing something up: Rirst MS Setup couldn't find the EULA so I edited the winnt.sif and got past that error, then Setup couldn't format the HDD -- I never got past THAT one. I figured, "Forget it!" and attempted an Ubuntu install... THAT failed as well. Then I found your tutorial and it SAVED my sanity. So, once again thank you so much!
You can boot ubuntu directly from the same Easy2Boot flash drive - just copy the ISO to \_ISO\MAINMENU and boot. Try also StartOS and android-x86-2.2-r2-eeepc.iso!
Nice, that worked on my old Athlon 64 with VIA SATA controller, which can't boot from optical drives. It wouldn't work for me at first, then I watched this and learnt about step 2 :) All good now, thanks.
JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THIS PART: grb loader file that gets installed is also in the Easy2boot folder, they are named exactly the same, what I did further on I skipped to copy over the (grldr file) and managed to get everything working on the USB stick, I have now a bootable usb2 stick with windows xp iso that I can install onto a Desktop system that has a SATA only Hard drive. Thanks To Steve
Thanks brother, it works now thanks to your ^ comment =) Another tip, if you get an "amsm" or arms or driver error sp3 error right before win xp finalization of the this 1-2 hour process is done, just put in the win xp or win xp pro cd in your old desktop cd drive. IDK why, but it works ! You can install any drivers once you finalize windows =)
Very useful, I was able to install with no problems following this instructions after many frustrations. Also useful to keep the easy2boot for the future.
My option : Use usb connector and plug in hdd into another pc or laptop , use any program to make your hdd like boot win xp ( flash usb ) Done , than plug in Hdd in your pc and boot xp from hdd , take install ( alot of errors for sure ) Once when is installed use another usb stick with xp boot , open bios option and first device USB. Format Hdd from usb bootable xp stuck options and than install windows like normal instalation :) Thats work for me.
Not really much of a description! Do you expect any useful reply without giving any details or observations whatsoever! e.g. 'I am trying to fix my Ford car using a 1.6 engine' ... 'didn't work'
steve thank you I have followed the steps and it worked, although not from the first try. first couple of times it just restarted after loading the iso into the ram. then after some hours passed, i retry and it suddenly worked. note: i saw you have used easy 2 boot version 1.09 if i'm not mistaken. well i couldn't find it so i went with the last version. it worked. loading the sata drivers with nlite didn't work for me that's why i'm here.
"I just tried" as in tired using the USB boot on my laptop. "It went flawless" - it was installing everything as it should. "Then boom" meaning the blue screen just randomly popped up when everything seemed to be installing. The same thing happened with the windows CD. The HDD in the computer is completely formatted and empty.
+illenick So it did not install and did not get to the Desktop so it did not install flawlessy, it blue-screened during the second GUI stage of installing XP (usually there is a 'x minutes remaining' countdown - it is useful to note what the last time is before it BSODs). If this is the same point each time you install, it may tell us where the problem lies. However, I would do a Memory test (Utilities - Memory Test on Easy2Boot) and also a disk test e.g. Hirens Boot CD ISO and run a disk test. You still did not tell me the BSOD error number...?
+steve6375 it was install-ING flawlessly i never said it made it to the desktop.... i didnt have a timer for when it would be finished i couldnt check that for you :/ and i only remember on the blue screen it saying to do a disk check.... ill get the number soon as im running it again. i checked in the utilities and mermory test wasnt there...? anywhere else i should look?
+steve6375 also on the screen berfore the windows install starts i got this error when checking drivers. ERROR: DRIVERPACK. INI: could not find FIRA/firadisk.sys then it continued on....
steve6375 I change a lot of xpsp3 iso but it's the same. When i make boot usb flash drive it shows "system hard disk (hd1) not detected by bios. Some payload files may work not correctly". Then it shows error 13 "Invalid or unsupported executable format" and after it shows error 8 "kernel must be loaded before booting." Could you help? I need some advice. Thks.
Andrey Pavliuk The message about hard disk not detected by BIOS means that there is not internal hard disk detected by the BIOS. i.e. there is no hard disk in the system or the hard disk is dead! What system are you using? Can you see a hard disk listed in BIOS Setup menu?
steve6375 I bought a new notebook 3 days ago. DOS. I want to install xp. I'm in xp now. Hard disk i see in bios. Can you give me your email i send you 4 photo.
If your target PC can ´t boot into system,just delete all files ( not .iso,.iso.auto,.tag) Do it on another PC and just continue in installation as stebe6375 :) And,thank too. I can´t boot win 7,so i tried many times to install win XP. Only your tutorial worked
I couldn’t get the target system to boot off the usb drive. I followed everything I could up to that point, it just refuses to boot the drive. I have a pretty modern system (probably why) of a Ryzen 2700X on an X470 board.
Thanks for such a helpful tutorial, this is the furthest I've gotten into trying to install it! Though the Windows XP Professional Setup is giving me the message: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3." I'm sure you've seen it before; do you have any suggestions?
There are no XP disk drivers for modern chipsets - they just don't make the inf files any more for XP, so if you have a recent chipset then it wont recognise it. Usually XP won't work on modern chipsets very well even if you do manage to install it!
It automatically detects the type of PCI device and automatically creates a virtual floppy disk drive in memory which contains the correct XP 32bit driver for the mass storage controller.
@@steve6375 so the harddrive will run on sata mode? You don't don't to disable the sata mode in bios? How does the windows xp OS runs the hd without a sata driver after you have completed the installation? The OS doesn't have sata driver in the first place. You have to download from mobo manufacture separately. Just confused how it runs on sata mode after installation without a driver. Or we do install it through virtual floppy drive?
@@m.farhana.rahman3372 XP adds the driver into the XP install. Its exactly the same as you pressing F6 during Setup and adding a driver from an OEM driver floppy disk, the driver is added into the XP install files on the target disk so it is there on reboot to XP from the hard disk. Easy2Boot (DPMS version) contains all XP 32-bit mass storage drivers, that is why the DPMS version is a lot bigger than the non-DPMS version. E2B picks the correct mass storage drivers and makes a virtual F6 floppy disk drive in memory and sets the default driver to the same INF file so it is automatically used. In fact, E2B sets up two driver floppies (fd0 and fd1), one with the Firadisk virtual disk driver for the ISO file to appear as a CD set as the default driver and one with the correct storage driver set as the default driver - XP will then automatically install both drivers.
why not just skip the usb . if u have 2 hdd or ssd u could just copy all files on 1 hdd or ssd and boot from it and use other hard drive just to get windows on it
For some reason after performing step 2 and when it should start loading the XP screen, I only see a flashing cursor and it stays like that forever. Anyone found a fix to this issue?
Great job many many thanks, Successfully created bootable flash drive, looking for this for long time, We can add add many iso files in it, no need to carry cds or dvds thanks again.
here is the situation of error 14: At first after choosing step 1 this row appears: Info: no scsi/sata/raid pci ids in driverpack.ini file And then it starts listing those 3 drivers but in my case it only detects two... So, comparing to this video, the driver that is missing in my setup is this: Driver 1: pci/ven_8086&dev_2829&cc_0106 name= iastor3 After that the loading of the xp iso to the memory proceeds and it completes in about 5 minutes... After that the blue screen named Windows setup appears and that's where the error appears: File ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 14. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit. so the step 1 doesn't complete... I tried making only step 2 but it was useless it didn't do anything Is anyone having the same issue? Any suggestions? Thanks
Hi Steve. I'm getting an "invalid or null" "no boot signature in partition table of drive HD01" and "Error: Cannot find GRLDR in all devices" Any suggestions?
I don't recognise either of those messages. Is this when booting from a USB drive? If so test it using the QEMU button in RMPrepUSB. If that works then the problem is your system BIOS setttings. You need to give me more details.
Can i use a usb set up like this on a computer with a blank HDD? i have the bios installed but the HDD was formatted and i can only install via usb as the CD/DVD method is not working.
So I wiped and formatted my usb stick, installed grub4dos to both the master and partition boot record, and dropped my iso files on the drive. The first try it was looking for the first item in the grub menu and couldn't find it. The second I organized the folders like you had them _ISO/Windows/ etc and now I just get one line of GRUB4DOS version, date, mem: 636K/898M/0M, End: 36873A and that's it. My .iso file I got online (actually tried 2 different ones) and extracted it using winRAR. Neither showed the files organized like yours. I'm guessing its an iso formatting issue or possibly a bad version of the grub file? I'm new to this, do you have any suggestions?
I suggest you don't follow a seven year old video! Watch the videos on this page www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/windows-install-isos/windows-xp-install-isos/ and get the XP ISO file from the link on this page www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/list-of-tested-payload-files/
When you see the prompt to press F6 at the bottom of the blue text screen of XP Setup, press F5 and choose an option. If that does not work, reboot and instead of F5 try F7.
Steve, i'm getting stuck on the screen at 5:40, there is no blue text beneath (fd0) default=WinVBlock. I've tried with option 2 and 3 and it's just stuck. Can you please help?
I didn't get ntldr error this time but neither option 2 or 3 are working for me. My pc freezes after I press 2 or 3 after couple of seconds. Drivers are not automatically detected.
You probably downloaded the vanilla version 😂 try downloading the DPMS version of easy2boot and then click the update e2b button. The DPMS version is much larger and has SATA drivers. This video is out dated, no need for rmprepusb, etc. Just download and run the exe
Cant install... «ERROR: this drive booted as floppy disk - please change BIOS settings to boot as a hard disk or read E2B FAQ!» My machine is a netbook with no too much options for boot, i tried many options with no changes and the same message error Any idea? :/
The usual reason is because you did not prepare the USB drive correctly - you need to either use the Easy2Boot Make_E2B.exe GUI or use RMPrepUSB and tick the 'Boot as C: (2 PTNS) option so that the USB drive has two partitions on it. Since you give no details whatsoever on how you made the USB drive (or even if you are booting from a USb drive!) it is difficult to guess at what else the problem could be!
@@steve6375 well, finally the problem is due to the 16gb pendrive was i used,(i clarify i followed the steps of your tutorial to the letter and did not work in 4 attempts), now i tried with a very old 8gb pendrive and worked in a single try!!! Good tutorial, pal And ty very much
@steve6375 I tried to look for that a million times.. The only thing I could find for the HDD was enable and disable... It says "options for sata drive" or something along those lines but that's it.... These bios have like no options... And for the error it just happens randomly sometimes it takes a while and sometimes it's really quick...
+illenick OK, if it was a driver problem then it would always crash in the same place. If it is crashing randomly then I would check memory and hard disk. Did you run a memory test yet - Easy2Boot - Utilities - MEMORY TEST Menu - 0 or CTRL+U then CTRL+M then 0 [ENTER].
at this point: 4:42 system hard disk not detected by BIOS! and at this point: 5:28 it says DPMS not available (driver pack files not present)....help pleaseee. Where can i find the driver pack files and where do i install them???
If you have Hirens Boot CD then you can run a diagnostic HDD test from MiniXP from the HBCD menu. There is a Fujitsu Diagnostic test for DOS www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/fujitsu_diagnostic_%28ide%29,1.html 1. Download FJDT700 and extract FJDT.exe 2. Extract FreeDOS_Full.ima from \_ISO\DOS\MNU\Freedos288.ima (already in E2B) 3. Copy and rename FreeDOS_Full.ima to \_ISO\MAINMENU\FreeDOSHDD.ima 4. Install ImDisk, right click on \_ISO\MAINMENU\FreeDOSHDD.ima and Mount as floppy 5. Copy FJDT.exe to the new floppy virtual drive (should be FDAUTO.bat, KERNEL.SYS, etc, already there) 6. Right-click on the new floppy drive icon an UnMount ImDisk Virtual Disk 7. Now boot to E2B, select the FreeDOSHDD.ima file and boot to it - then type FJDT easy!
I got to the second part of the install 7:00 after the boot screen appears it will black screen after and can't continue followed all steps to this point i even tried low ram but still black screen.
Use the TH-cam Gear wheel to slow down the video (or pause it). Follow the links in the Description. XP ISOs can be obtained by going to the www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/list-of-tested-payload-files/ page.
alredy did it ...all process but something is missing.. but my administration accoun blocked..and i cant formate my pendrive.. ..i am trying without formate is that ok?
When I open Easy2Boot_v1.77aDPMS.zip with 7zip, and then I try to extract the files to a folder, it gives an error message "An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.", and 7zip stops working.
I am really confused, so sorry. am i going into the correct folder. I go into the dpms folder & i can see a driverpack configuration settings size 139kb. Is this the one i rename to driverpack.ini. Regards Tony
Yes. The error message shows you the expected name and path = /_ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini . You don't need to rename anything. Just download and extract the E2B+DPMS files to your USB drive. Here is the link dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7841017/Easy2Boot_v1.28_DPMS.zip
now matter how many windows come up in the market it wont be able to fill the feel of windows xp the look the interface was so simple...but unfortunately this buzzy market it really suckzz...miss yaaa xp
hi, ifi do step 1, then reboot and go to step 2 it load iso into memory and than show up diagnostic tool to test memory (memory is ok) if i press exit it reboot pc.... if i unplug usb, than continue loading from hdd and show installation windows xp and remaining time like 40 min but with window asking for files to continue.... any idea why i cant install it like in video over step 2? sadly i cant use cdrom i have old DELL inspiron mini so thats why im trying reinstall it via usb drive... thanks for any help
I got this error "missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)" while choosing the target harddrive,so i abort it and then i finally go through windows setup, after some loading procedures, a blue screen error appeared. Can you help me with this? thanks in advance.
Iam doing the instalation of Windows 7 but on reboot doesnt appear the step 2 so its like a new start and it doesnt let me proceed with the instalation, any idea?
Do you mean will using E2B with the XP 32-bit Driver Pack for Mass Storage (disk) devices help? - Probably - why not just try it? I cannot foresee the future!
What is 'this iso'? Standard XP SP3 ISO does not have OEMPREINSTALL=YES. Try WinSetupFromUSB. Explain the problem clearly. Usually E2B can install but the install may not be fully automated correctly. Online Chat help is available on the E2B website.
The Download page leads to four different E2B download files - two of which are .ZIP files. This video is 7 years old. Things have changed a bit in seven years! See the Download page for more details. Download the zip file, extract it and then run Make_E2B_USB_drive.cmd as admin.
I got this error "missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)" I rename the file & still get the error. I have no probs with vista win 7 win 8. Fantastic software. Just can't get around the xp error. What am i doing wrong Steve? Thanks
Name it driverpack.ini. If using Windows, Use (Save as * . *) and not *.txt or you will get driverpack.ini.txt. You can download E2B+driverpack files in one download now. See the 72a - Download section.
I go to install it on my hard drive but I run into "File ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 14 Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
Not one I have come across personally, but it seems many people have! Google for the error message and you will see - common fixes seem to be (1) test and fix bad RAM, (2) Change BIOS settings. It might also be worth trying a different ISO.
@@steve6375 After trying about a half dozen different XP ISOs I gave up. Fortunately though, I found an XP ISO with SATA drivers and updates up to November 2013 online and a scan of it from AVG 2019 warranted no warnings at all so I burned it to a blank CD with ImgBurn and gave it a go and it worked. Whoever uploaded that ISO included nearly 50 MB of SATA drivers and mine was among the many included so now I'm running old reliable Windows XP in AHCI mode with no issues whatsoever and its just about as snappy as Windows 7 is, which really impressed me. Thanks for your response anyway man. TH-cam didn't even give a notification to my phone.
@@jamesvinson3998 Hi James - very sorry - I have just found out it is a new bug in E2B v1.B2 !!!! v1.B1 and before was OK. It is fixed in v1.B3c on Beta folder 1drv.ms/u/s!AqlrQcdsFA-KsyN7uGg_65WTfvqq?e=4XRgWX
Im not sure if you are still replying, but I have a big issue... I tried E2B first, came up with the first step and always had some random issue like the temp files taking ages to delete, BSOD after loading Windows Setup (7b error), among a few others I cant remember. I tried burning a DVD with WinXPSP3, using E2B on a usb drive, even loading windows to the SATA drive itself and none prevailed. Im not sure what to do anymore..
You need to use the DPMS version of E2B. Make sure it detects the sata controller and lists a driver. Online help is available on the website. Note that systems made in last few years won't run XP because no drivers are available.
@@steve6375 I have an Optiplex 780 im attempting this project on, the board is manufactured in 2009. I looked on Dell's website for a driver for the SATA controller, but I only found drivers for specific HDDs and SSDs, not my SSD. Do I even need those?
@@steve6375 I make the E2B drive a 'E2B+DPMS' drive by following this set of instructions? www.easy2boot.com/make-an-easy2boot-usb-drive/adding-latest-dpms/
Steve thanks for fast reply. I have downloaded & installed Easy2boot v.128 DPMS. I have renamed the driverpack.ini. I still get the same message. "missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)". Sorry to be a pain
You don't need to rename the ini file if you have downloaded the DPMS zip file. The message says rename the DP .ini file (note the space between DP and .ini) it means rename the driverpack .ini file - not rename to DP.ini! The file should be already named DriverPack.ini - leave it as DriverPack.ini
Thank you so much for this detailed tutorial! I had spent the last two weeks and hours and hours of research and attempts to get XP back on my PC. I've gotten the vintage bug and decided to pull out my old Dell Dimension 8400 Pentium 4. At some point in the past I had installed Windows 7 over XP and I wanted XP back on the hard drive. I believe the SATA drivers were my biggest obstacle. The first time I followed your tutorial I got to a point where the drive wasn't detected. I decided to format the thumb drive and follow your steps more carefully the second time. Sure enough, I didn't unpack the Easy2boot contents onto the thumb drive the first time properly. The second time everything went much smoothly and I'm proud to say I'm looking at a fresh XP desktop! I can't wait to fire up some old games on it now, so thank you!
Looking forward to try it out as u did!
FINALLY took me 3 days to figure this out thanks
Honestly, Thank you! I was stuck with this issue for several days but it turns out that all along I was searching for solutions to problems I did not have. Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!! I have spent my entire day attempting to load XP onto a Dell Mini 1011. I used another all-in-one utility that was supposed to make it easy. After about 10 attempts thinking that I was messing something up: Rirst MS Setup couldn't find the EULA so I edited the winnt.sif and got past that error, then Setup couldn't format the HDD -- I never got past THAT one.
I figured, "Forget it!" and attempted an Ubuntu install... THAT failed as well. Then I found your tutorial and it SAVED my sanity. So, once again thank you so much!
You can boot ubuntu directly from the same Easy2Boot flash drive - just copy the ISO to \_ISO\MAINMENU and boot. Try also StartOS and android-x86-2.2-r2-eeepc.iso!
hard to understand but i finally got it, thanks steve!
After 2 years, you saved my life xD thanks dude, you the best
Nice, that worked on my old Athlon 64 with VIA SATA controller, which can't boot from optical drives. It wouldn't work for me at first, then I watched this and learnt about step 2 :) All good now, thanks.
JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THIS PART:
grb loader file that gets installed is also in the Easy2boot folder, they are named exactly the same, what I did further on I skipped to copy over the (grldr file) and managed to get everything working on the USB stick, I have now a bootable usb2 stick with windows xp iso that I can install onto a Desktop system that has a SATA only Hard drive. Thanks To Steve
Thanks brother, it works now thanks to your ^ comment =) Another tip, if you get an "amsm" or arms or driver error sp3 error right before win xp finalization of the this 1-2 hour process is done, just put in the win xp or win xp pro cd in your old desktop cd drive. IDK why, but it works ! You can install any drivers once you finalize windows =)
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thanks my childhood was already great with windows xp
Very useful, I was able to install with no problems following this instructions after many frustrations. Also useful to keep the easy2boot for the future.
this was the most helpful way to install windows xp with a large external hard drive... thank you so much u have no idea how much i appreciated...
watching this from the future !
Masterfully work.. can finally juggling with ISOs, menus... and everything works like charm.
Thanks with respect.
You've been a great teacher man! thumbs up!
Works really well, made a multiboot usb with it. disk recovery utils, password reset utils, multiple linux distros, and windows from xp-10.
GREAT TUTOR!!!
THANKS!
TESTED AND WORKED in my IBM T400 & COMPAQ CQ42!!!
Great job, man ! Really clear and it works perfectly.
So sorry Microsoft, But I will be using Windows XP WAY after April 8th, 2014.
everything is ok but after setup is starting text empty blue screen appears and my pc shutting down(yes i am in 2023)
My windows was fucked up and I tryed everything then I found you video finali worked tnx you are awsome
Well some times its fryzing when starts
My option : Use usb connector and plug in hdd into another pc or laptop , use any program to make your hdd like boot win xp ( flash usb ) Done , than plug in Hdd in your pc and boot xp from hdd , take install ( alot of errors for sure ) Once when is installed use another usb stick with xp boot , open bios option and first device USB. Format Hdd from usb bootable xp stuck options and than install windows like normal instalation :) Thats work for me.
Legendary thanks so much for this a thousand thumbs ups . ..
All worked out perfectly! Thanks for the video
On my 4th hour trying to install XP on a 64 bit Sony VGN, I hope this works. SO far a nice detailed tut. thanks I'll chime in later for progress :)
couldn't get it to work
Do you have 32-bit XP Microsoft ISO?
Not really much of a description! Do you expect any useful reply without giving any details or observations whatsoever! e.g. 'I am trying to fix my Ford car using a 1.6 engine' ... 'didn't work'
yeah it's what I was trying to install however I'll just a VM for it. I installed win 7 on the older 64 bit laptop
Hurry yepii ..... its still work in 2016 .
Thanks alot..
steve thank you I have followed the steps and it worked, although not from the first try.
first couple of times it just restarted after loading the iso into the ram. then after some hours passed, i retry and it suddenly worked.
note: i saw you have used easy 2 boot version 1.09 if i'm not mistaken. well i couldn't find it so i went with the last version. it worked.
loading the sata drivers with nlite didn't work for me that's why i'm here.
what song is that?
Thank you so much for this detailed tutorial!
It works!! Thank you!!
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format ?
thank you very much! i thought i was going to lose my mind but i found this. thank you again!
"I just tried" as in tired using the USB boot on my laptop. "It went flawless" - it was installing everything as it should. "Then boom" meaning the blue screen just randomly popped up when everything seemed to be installing. The same thing happened with the windows CD. The HDD in the computer is completely formatted and empty.
+illenick So it did not install and did not get to the Desktop so it did not install flawlessy, it blue-screened during the second GUI stage of installing XP (usually there is a 'x minutes remaining' countdown - it is useful to note what the last time is before it BSODs). If this is the same point each time you install, it may tell us where the problem lies. However, I would do a Memory test (Utilities - Memory Test on Easy2Boot) and also a disk test e.g. Hirens Boot CD ISO and run a disk test. You still did not tell me the BSOD error number...?
+steve6375 it was install-ING flawlessly i never said it made it to the desktop.... i didnt have a timer for when it would be finished i couldnt check that for you :/ and i only remember on the blue screen it saying to do a disk check.... ill get the number soon as im running it again. i checked in the utilities and mermory test wasnt there...? anywhere else i should look?
+steve6375 also on the screen berfore the windows install starts i got this error when checking drivers.
ERROR: DRIVERPACK. INI: could not find FIRA/firadisk.sys then it continued on....
+illenick just press ENTER and it will continue - it is a bug that is fixed in v1.73
'DIsk check' sounds like something is wrong with the hard disk. I would buy another one and replace it.
Thank you, it worked nicely :)
WORK FOR ME! THANKS SO MUCH!
(test install xp sp3 ok!)
Thankyou Steve it seems to be working now :D
your instructions worked very well sir. Many Many Thanks
@Ross- you can see from the comments that other people have got this to work. So what's different about your setup - maybe the ISO you are using?
steve6375 I change a lot of xpsp3 iso but it's the same. When i make boot usb flash drive it shows "system hard disk (hd1) not detected by bios. Some payload files may work not correctly". Then it shows error 13 "Invalid or unsupported executable format" and after it shows error 8 "kernel must be loaded before booting." Could you help? I need some advice. Thks.
Andrey Pavliuk The message about hard disk not detected by BIOS means that there is not internal hard disk detected by the BIOS. i.e. there is no hard disk in the system or the hard disk is dead! What system are you using? Can you see a hard disk listed in BIOS Setup menu?
steve6375 I bought a new notebook 3 days ago. DOS. I want to install xp. I'm in xp now. Hard disk i see in bios. Can you give me your email i send you 4 photo.
steve6375 also i download Easy2Boot_v1.71DPMS.7z Not Easy2Boot_v1.09 as on video. or it doesn't matter?
Andrey Pavliuk Please use Contact Me form on easy2boot.com
If your target PC can ´t boot into system,just delete all files ( not .iso,.iso.auto,.tag)
Do it on another PC and just continue in installation as stebe6375 :)
And,thank too. I can´t boot win 7,so i tried many times to install win XP.
Only your tutorial worked
blue screen error. plz help
I couldn’t get the target system to boot off the usb drive. I followed everything I could up to that point, it just refuses to boot the drive. I have a pretty modern system (probably why) of a Ryzen 2700X on an X470 board.
Modern systems are set to UEFI-boot only. You need to disable Secure Boot, disable Fast Boot and enable CSM\Legacy mode in the BIOS settings.
Excellent guide! Thanks a lot
Thanks for such a helpful tutorial, this is the furthest I've gotten into trying to install it! Though the Windows XP Professional Setup is giving me the message:
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3."
I'm sure you've seen it before; do you have any suggestions?
Yes, use a later version of the iso which has added mass storage drivers.. see easy2boot website, tested payloads page for those
@@steve6375 Hey thanks a lot for the quick response, I'll check that out soon!
Thankyou so much for this tutorial!
my cmd Gpedit all blocked not open... Administration account also not opening ??
Saved the day for us, tyvm
Had to get the DPMS drivers from somewhere else tho, every link I found was dead.
Can your drivers be added into e2b? Can you give details of drivers and changes you made to ini? PM me pls
You are THE BEST! Thanks! :)
I followed every step but my hard drive doesn’t show up in windows setup and I think easy2boot detects a wrong south bridge :(
There are no XP disk drivers for modern chipsets - they just don't make the inf files any more for XP, so if you have a recent chipset then it wont recognise it. Usually XP won't work on modern chipsets very well even if you do manage to install it!
Thank you VERY VERY much! 👍
✨🙏✨🙋✨👍✨
wow if you make sure be used or create the virtual machine 5:02
So you don't need SATA driver for this? But, does this run in SATA mode enable or disable? Weird that is doesn't need the driver.
It automatically detects the type of PCI device and automatically creates a virtual floppy disk drive in memory which contains the correct XP 32bit driver for the mass storage controller.
@@steve6375 so the harddrive will run on sata mode? You don't don't to disable the sata mode in bios?
How does the windows xp OS runs the hd without a sata driver after you have completed the installation?
The OS doesn't have sata driver in the first place. You have to download from mobo manufacture separately.
Just confused how it runs on sata mode after installation without a driver. Or we do install it through virtual floppy drive?
@@m.farhana.rahman3372 XP adds the driver into the XP install. Its exactly the same as you pressing F6 during Setup and adding a driver from an OEM driver floppy disk, the driver is added into the XP install files on the target disk so it is there on reboot to XP from the hard disk.
Easy2Boot (DPMS version) contains all XP 32-bit mass storage drivers, that is why the DPMS version is a lot bigger than the non-DPMS version. E2B picks the correct mass storage drivers and makes a virtual F6 floppy disk drive in memory and sets the default driver to the same INF file so it is automatically used. In fact, E2B sets up two driver floppies (fd0 and fd1), one with the Firadisk virtual disk driver for the ISO file to appear as a CD set as the default driver and one with the correct storage driver set as the default driver - XP will then automatically install both drivers.
@@steve6375 cool thanks, now that make sense.
why not just skip the usb . if u have 2 hdd or ssd u could just copy all files on 1 hdd or ssd and boot from it and use other hard drive just to get windows on it
iam getting blue screen and it shows error (0x0000007b) help me..
Plenty of help at www.easy2boot.com
For some reason after performing step 2 and when it should start loading the XP screen, I only see a flashing cursor and it stays like that forever. Anyone found a fix to this issue?
My internet was not working it said plug cable but I already had it plugged I restarted internet modem and didn't work
Great job many many thanks, Successfully created bootable flash drive, looking for this for long time, We can add add many iso files in it, no need to carry cds or dvds thanks again.
here is the situation of error 14:
At first after choosing step 1 this row appears:
Info: no scsi/sata/raid pci ids in driverpack.ini file
And then it starts listing those 3 drivers but in my case it only detects two... So, comparing to this video, the driver that is missing in my setup is this:
Driver 1: pci/ven_8086&dev_2829&cc_0106 name= iastor3
After that the loading of the xp iso to the memory proceeds and it completes in about 5 minutes... After that the blue screen named Windows setup appears and that's where the error appears:
File ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 14.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
so the step 1 doesn't complete... I tried making only step 2 but it was useless it didn't do anything
Is anyone having the same issue? Any suggestions? Thanks
There was a bug in that version of E2B - please update to latest version. Sorry!
Hi Steve. I'm getting an "invalid or null" "no boot signature in partition table of drive HD01" and "Error: Cannot find GRLDR in all devices" Any suggestions?
I don't recognise either of those messages. Is this when booting from a USB drive? If so test it using the QEMU button in RMPrepUSB. If that works then the problem is your system BIOS setttings. You need to give me more details.
how big shud the USB drive be?
2GB or larger
steve6375 thanks! did this today on an old laptop. works great.
Can i use a usb set up like this on a computer with a blank HDD? i have the bios installed but the HDD was formatted and i can only install via usb as the CD/DVD method is not working.
+illenick of course!
@steve6375. It's a fujitsu.
So I wiped and formatted my usb stick, installed grub4dos to both the master and partition boot record, and dropped my iso files on the drive. The first try it was looking for the first item in the grub menu and couldn't find it. The second I organized the folders like you had them _ISO/Windows/ etc and now I just get one line of GRUB4DOS version, date, mem: 636K/898M/0M, End: 36873A and that's it. My .iso file I got online (actually tried 2 different ones) and extracted it using winRAR. Neither showed the files organized like yours. I'm guessing its an iso formatting issue or possibly a bad version of the grub file? I'm new to this, do you have any suggestions?
I suggest you don't follow a seven year old video!
Watch the videos on this page
www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/windows-install-isos/windows-xp-install-isos/
and get the XP ISO file from the link on this page
www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/list-of-tested-payload-files/
Finally 1 year later work
2018 and still trying to get Windows XP’s
In my computer showing blue screen error ..and showing bios is not fully acpi compliand.. What can i do sir plz help?
When you see the prompt to press F6 at the bottom of the blue text screen of XP Setup, press F5 and choose an option. If that does not work, reboot and instead of F5 try F7.
Steve, i'm getting stuck on the screen at 5:40, there is no blue text beneath (fd0) default=WinVBlock. I've tried with option 2 and 3 and it's just stuck. Can you please help?
maybe not enough memory RAM? Try Rufus.
Finally work thanks
No problem 👍
I didn't get ntldr error this time but neither option 2 or 3 are working for me. My pc freezes after I press 2 or 3 after couple of seconds. Drivers are not automatically detected.
No 5 need more input! What PC, what internal drives + interface, did you use DPMS download, what is PC ID of your disk controller, etc. etc.
this is amazing.. probably one of the best walkthrough
I did something wrong ... DPMS option not available (Driverpack files not present). Any ideas
You probably downloaded the vanilla version 😂 try downloading the DPMS version of easy2boot and then click the update e2b button. The DPMS version is much larger and has SATA drivers.
This video is out dated, no need for rmprepusb, etc. Just download and run the exe
You are talking super fast. Starting voice volume sometimes loud, falling down & down. Hard to follow.
i commend this Video!! worked for me!!!
Cant install...
«ERROR: this drive booted as floppy disk - please change BIOS settings to boot as a hard disk or read E2B FAQ!»
My machine is a netbook with no too much options for boot, i tried many options with no changes and the same message error
Any idea? :/
The usual reason is because you did not prepare the USB drive correctly - you need to either use the Easy2Boot Make_E2B.exe GUI or use RMPrepUSB and tick the 'Boot as C: (2 PTNS) option so that the USB drive has two partitions on it. Since you give no details whatsoever on how you made the USB drive (or even if you are booting from a USb drive!) it is difficult to guess at what else the problem could be!
@@steve6375 well, finally the problem is due to the 16gb pendrive was i used,(i clarify i followed the steps of your tutorial to the letter and did not work in 4 attempts), now i tried with a very old 8gb pendrive and worked in a single try!!!
Good tutorial, pal
And ty very much
@steve6375 I tried to look for that a million times.. The only thing I could find for the HDD was enable and disable... It says "options for sata drive" or something along those lines but that's it.... These bios have like no options... And for the error it just happens randomly sometimes it takes a while and sometimes it's really quick...
+illenick OK, if it was a driver problem then it would always crash in the same place. If it is crashing randomly then I would check memory and hard disk. Did you run a memory test yet - Easy2Boot - Utilities - MEMORY TEST Menu - 0
or CTRL+U then CTRL+M then 0 [ENTER].
at this point: 4:42 system hard disk not detected by BIOS! and at this point: 5:28 it says DPMS not available (driver pack files not present)....help pleaseee. Where can i find the driver pack files and where do i install them???
If it say there is no BIOS hard disk then the BIOS did not detect your internal hard disk. Maybe it is faulty?
If you have Hirens Boot CD then you can run a diagnostic HDD test from MiniXP from the HBCD menu.
There is a Fujitsu Diagnostic test for DOS
www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/fujitsu_diagnostic_%28ide%29,1.html
1. Download FJDT700 and extract FJDT.exe
2. Extract FreeDOS_Full.ima from \_ISO\DOS\MNU\Freedos288.ima (already in E2B)
3. Copy and rename FreeDOS_Full.ima to \_ISO\MAINMENU\FreeDOSHDD.ima
4. Install ImDisk, right click on \_ISO\MAINMENU\FreeDOSHDD.ima and Mount as floppy
5. Copy FJDT.exe to the new floppy virtual drive (should be FDAUTO.bat, KERNEL.SYS, etc, already there)
6. Right-click on the new floppy drive icon an UnMount ImDisk Virtual Disk
7. Now boot to E2B, select the FreeDOSHDD.ima file and boot to it - then type FJDT
easy!
I got to the second part of the install 7:00 after the boot screen appears it will black screen after and can't continue followed all steps to this point i even tried low ram but still black screen.
Try a more recent XP 32-bit ISO from the Tested ISOs page of the e2b website.
I get error loading operating system on part 2...
Mitch Dampier Then Part 1 did not work properly.
HEY HEY HHEY
ARE YOU USING WINDOWS 7'S BUILT IN MUSIC?????
You're going too fast. Also you have no links to the files your talking about in the video. I'm stuck trying to find the payload files you mention?
Use the TH-cam Gear wheel to slow down the video (or pause it). Follow the links in the Description. XP ISOs can be obtained by going to the www.easy2boot.com/add-payload-files/list-of-tested-payload-files/ page.
P.S. This video is 7 years old and very out of date!
Thanks. I did manage to get it with work.
Thanks, dude.
okk... Grldr driver is missing Press enter to restart. and when i hit enter nothing happn anything...
see video at 3:05 - unzip download files to USB drive
You should have \grldr and \_ISO folder, etc.
alredy did it ...all process but something is missing.. but my administration accoun blocked..and i cant formate my pendrive.. ..i am trying without formate is that ok?
You need to install grub4dos using RMPrepUSB to make it bootable.
When I open Easy2Boot_v1.77aDPMS.zip with 7zip, and then I try to extract the files to a folder, it gives an error message "An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.", and 7zip stops working.
+fould13 It may be corrupt - try downloading the same file from the Alternate Download Area liks at the bottom of the page.
steve6375 Thanks, I might try that.
I am really confused, so sorry. am i going into the correct folder. I go into the dpms folder & i can see a driverpack configuration settings size 139kb. Is this the one i rename to driverpack.ini. Regards Tony
Yes. The error message shows you the expected name and path = /_ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini . You don't need to rename anything. Just download and extract the E2B+DPMS files to your USB drive.
Here is the link
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7841017/Easy2Boot_v1.28_DPMS.zip
now matter how many windows come up in the market it wont be able to fill the feel of windows xp the look the interface was so simple...but unfortunately this buzzy market it really suckzz...miss yaaa xp
Thanks bro , You Saved Meee
hi, ifi do step 1, then reboot and go to step 2 it load iso into memory and than show up diagnostic tool to test memory (memory is ok) if i press exit it reboot pc.... if i unplug usb, than continue loading from hdd and show installation windows xp and remaining time like 40 min but with window asking for files to continue.... any idea why i cant install it like in video over step 2? sadly i cant use cdrom i have old DELL inspiron mini so thats why im trying reinstall it via usb drive... thanks for any help
Use recommended iso. See links on list of tested ISOs page on website.
I got this error
"missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)"
while choosing the target harddrive,so i abort it and then i finally go through windows setup, after some loading procedures, a blue screen error appeared.
Can you help me with this? thanks in advance.
Whoops! Very sorry the INI file is missing from the v1.22 download, please try v1.22A DPMS download!
Iam doing the instalation of Windows 7 but on reboot doesnt appear the step 2 so its like a new start and it doesnt let me proceed with the instalation, any idea?
Windows 7 does not require 2 steps. Only XP requires 2 steps. For Windows 7 ISOs, place ISO file in \_ISO\WIN7 folder.
Thx so much man ! Awesome !!!!!!!!!! THX THX !
My laptop can see the HDD, but XP install can only see the USB drive. Will DPMS help find the hard drive?
Do you mean will using E2B with the XP 32-bit Driver Pack for Mass Storage (disk) devices help? - Probably - why not just try it? I cannot foresee the future!
E2b cannot install from this iso unless it is patched the file WINNT.SIF contains OEMPREINSTALL=YES parameter HELP!!!
What is 'this iso'? Standard XP SP3 ISO does not have OEMPREINSTALL=YES. Try WinSetupFromUSB. Explain the problem clearly. Usually E2B can install but the install may not be fully automated correctly. Online Chat help is available on the E2B website.
Thank you :)
Very good
Hey When I boot into setup using step 2 it asks me where to find files?
See Tutorial 30 for Troubleshooting hints.
Hello, easy2boot does not appear as a zip file when i download it, but it shows as an executable setup file? How should I use it?
The Download page leads to four different E2B download files - two of which are .ZIP files. This video is 7 years old. Things have changed a bit in seven years! See the Download page for more details. Download the zip file, extract it and then run Make_E2B_USB_drive.cmd as admin.
i love you! thanks !
I got this error
"missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)"
I rename the file & still get the error. I have no probs with vista win 7 win 8. Fantastic software. Just can't get around the xp error. What am i doing wrong Steve? Thanks
Name it driverpack.ini. If using Windows, Use (Save as * . *) and not *.txt or you will get driverpack.ini.txt. You can download E2B+driverpack files in one download now. See the 72a - Download section.
I go to install it on my hard drive but I run into "File ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 14 Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
Not one I have come across personally, but it seems many people have! Google for the error message and you will see - common fixes seem to be (1) test and fix bad RAM, (2) Change BIOS settings. It might also be worth trying a different ISO.
@@steve6375 After trying about a half dozen different XP ISOs I gave up. Fortunately though, I found an XP ISO with SATA drivers and updates up to November 2013 online and a scan of it from AVG 2019 warranted no warnings at all so I burned it to a blank CD with ImgBurn and gave it a go and it worked. Whoever uploaded that ISO included nearly 50 MB of SATA drivers and mine was among the many included so now I'm running old reliable Windows XP in AHCI mode with no issues whatsoever and its just about as snappy as Windows 7 is, which really impressed me. Thanks for your response anyway man. TH-cam didn't even give a notification to my phone.
@@jamesvinson3998 Hi James - very sorry - I have just found out it is a new bug in E2B v1.B2 !!!! v1.B1 and before was OK. It is fixed in v1.B3c on Beta folder 1drv.ms/u/s!AqlrQcdsFA-KsyN7uGg_65WTfvqq?e=4XRgWX
Im not sure if you are still replying, but I have a big issue...
I tried E2B first, came up with the first step and always had some random issue like the temp files taking ages to delete, BSOD after loading Windows Setup (7b error), among a few others I cant remember. I tried burning a DVD with WinXPSP3, using E2B on a usb drive, even loading windows to the SATA drive itself and none prevailed. Im not sure what to do anymore..
You need to use the DPMS version of E2B. Make sure it detects the sata controller and lists a driver. Online help is available on the website. Note that systems made in last few years won't run XP because no drivers are available.
@@steve6375 I have an Optiplex 780 im attempting this project on, the board is manufactured in 2009. I looked on Dell's website for a driver for the SATA controller, but I only found drivers for specific HDDs and SSDs, not my SSD. Do I even need those?
@@AceStarstream not for installing. You just need E2B+DPMS.
@@steve6375 I make the E2B drive a 'E2B+DPMS' drive by following this set of instructions? www.easy2boot.com/make-an-easy2boot-usb-drive/adding-latest-dpms/
whay my use show dpms option not available??....
Did you install the E2B+DPMS version?
Steve thanks for fast reply. I have downloaded & installed Easy2boot v.128 DPMS. I have renamed the driverpack.ini. I still get the same message. "missing _ISO/e2b/grub/DPMS/Driverpack.ini File (please rename Dp.ini File)". Sorry to be a pain
You don't need to rename the ini file if you have downloaded the DPMS zip file. The message says rename the DP .ini file (note the space between DP and .ini) it means rename the driverpack .ini file - not rename to DP.ini!
The file should be already named DriverPack.ini - leave it as DriverPack.ini