Admittedly, it's been a while since I installed XP from USB, but I seem to remember having pretty good success with Easy2Boot back in the day. One of the advantages there is that you don't need to extract the ISO. You can just dump it (and many other ISOs) onto an Easy2Boot USB drive and go.
I use Ventoy to make a multi-biot USB drive (have to set whether or not the flash drive is either MBR or gpt, and if you want secure boot enabled. Then you just copy the iso files over.
@@corey7219 yeah I don't think Ventoy works with XP, but for non retro stuff it's really awesome!. How good is having only a bunch of ISOs on a USB stick, and still being able to use it for other stuff!
@@nrg753 my exp, it can work with xp, 2k as well, but the issue is often that older systems are....tetchy with booting from usb and you may need to make sure to use a smaller drive i have also found that some you need to make the boot partition fat16, the storage can be fat32 but boot MUST be 16 on some old rigs... its a bios limitation from what i have seen.. there are a stack of ways to do this, on old or new windows, honestly the last time i did it i just copied the command lines from a guide a buddy wrote a long time ago, then copied the files i extracted from the ISO and updated with all the patches and drivers needed, and used unstoppable copier to just copy the folder to the root of the usb.. i could have used the xcopy command but... that would mean more typing .. rather then a few clicks and short wait for the copy to complete.. ventoy CAN work on older systems, i have not tested 9x with it.. but have been told by a buddy who i introduced to ventoy, that hes installed 98se, beos, os/2 warp, nt3.5, nt4, and redhat linux all from that era(redhad from a cd image he made from the first widely distributed redhat book he had is pickup for him.. way back then..), though he did have to update the bios on a few old systems to get them to boot from a normal ventoy disk rather then one with tweaks. there are a few similar options like Easy2Boot, as well as some micro/mini linux distros that use this method that you can drop more iso's onto the drive along side the linux iso and boot from them via the boot menu... (trick i use to use to setup 9x from an iso on a usb stick back in the day.. also let me boot windowsPE very very fast..
This video would have been super helpful to me about a month ago while I was struggling using many of the newer methods people have made guides for on YT. x)
Phil showing us anti period correct correct installation of windows xp😅. But! I still very thankful to Phil for SD to IDE, for SATA to IDE, and other tricks. I’m with Chanel since 2015, and learned a lot. Wish you the best!
I learned this method from the windows xp black edition readme text. It works amazing no matter what. Even installed xp on pentium 2 machine with this.
All these years of giving away my old PCs 😢 now I’m scrounging parts to relive a bygone era. Ended up with an old Lenovo h405 barebones kit with 8GB ram and a barely used Radeon HD 7770 dell edition. I’ve never in all my years of installing WinXP used a usb clean and easy install as your guide has provided; thank you 😊 Now onto playing some games! 🍺
Hey Phil, the last time I installed XP was just after the root certificates expired … it was a bit annoying to do, but I got it working. It seems like a walkthrough for setting up XP with all of the patches and the like people will want installed would be a good idea and companion to a similar video I recall you did for win98/me (which ultimately aren't significantly different anymore, but I'd still recommend 98 so you can write a boot floppy from the GUI if you need one.)
XP is pretty good with talking to floppy drive, for example many tools that create floppies, like DDO managers, will not run on Windows 10, but work on 10. Yea I could do a guide showing how I install XP with all the drivers and have everything up and running.
you can actually still make a boot floppy with ME, its just less convenient, a big of googling shows you how, hell you can do it from command prompt with the format command still in ME.. and regardless of what some think and claim, ME still runs on dos, and i have made many a boot floppy from the commandline on ME... back in the day often to allow me to upgrade the system to 98se.. that had far less issues on systems of the era.. mostly due to some stuff that they stuck on with no easy way to disable.. like the proto system restore function thats like NT's restore points...just... not once have i ever seen it work on ME.. when i was in the beta or the full versions i used... not f-ing once... but... yeah... *bangs head into desk* and note by NT i mean 2k/xp/etc, thats more like OS2 then Dos, honestly its too bad MS and IBM split on that... os2/warp was fucking great for some applications, way faster then windows of the era on the same hardware from my exp... and with windows installed you could run most dos and windows apps without much trouble...
note for anybody whos not an OG geek, but you do not need this tool to setup xp from usb, there are several other ways to do this, this just makes it easier... well to a degree anyway... i have setup 2k and up from usb for a very very very long time, same for 95 and up honestly... though i dont deal with them much anymore outside vm's i have helped get a couple friends old retro systems back up and running and setup to play games of the era... and its funny what comes back to you as you do it... repetition is a hell of a thing...
Tested this method on a ThinkPad T420s and a custom build (Pentium G2xxx + H61 chipset I believe) with success. Installing Windows XP has never been this easy, thank you so much, Phil.
how the hell you did that? i have the same laptop, i just get a bluescreen with "first part" and a curser is blinking forever when i try "second part". Have you changed anything specific in the bios?
I have been using this software for years, it works like a charm. As always many thanks for the video, keep up the good work, it's very informative and didactic for me.
Phil you missed one crucial piece of information that many (like me) needed to know. If you get "The bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant." BSOD "Stop error code 0x000000A5" in the first setup. Here is the solution: When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen. Then all should proceed without issue.
Phil…love your videos. I’ve collected a lot of old pc hardware over the years. Just getting back into retro gaming. How are you guys activating Windows XP? I’ve got versions of every Windows XP…Home, Pro, OEM, upgrade, full, 32 bit and 64 bit. Curious how you guys are getting around this. Thanks for the help.
Thank you guys for your help. Now where to start…3DFX…2-5…early GeForce Cards or FX5800…Early Rage or Radeon cards…which CPU motherboard combo…which sound card…which case…ugh. Too many combo’s. Which game?…
Older versions of UnetBootin and/or Rufus should be able to do this as well. I recall doing it in the past, because it's significantly faster than installing from a CD/DVD Media.
@@felix-cq9eq Last time I did this myself, was back in 2018, setting up an old Lenovo T61 laptop. I used Rufus 2.18 and XP SP2 ISO, that's it. I know for a fact, that I used UnetBootin even earlier on, before I learned about Rufus. Now what Phil is showing, is when SATA drivers are needed, which is something the other method doesn't support.
I will give this one a try - despite getting easy2boot working the first time months ago, I couldn't get it working on my recent reinstall. I ended up with a half working DVD install using nLite to add SATA drivers. Running Haswell with a Samsung SSD... just need to track down a suitable PSU so I can run my Radeons in Crossfire.
I use Easy2Boot, got a few ISOs on the pen, XP, Vista and 7, also use it for drivers and other things when you needed to burn to a CDR and boot from DOS.
Oooof!!! I need this tutorial last week. I was having a hard time with installing XP onto a FX build. Motherboard doesn't have a floppy and ACHI drivers sucked to get to load up before install. I finally just installed it on IDE mode, then I placed the driver in driver folder in system32 and then made a registry change file to point it to the driver.
Rufus also works just fine for me, atleast for socket 939 agp platform ( Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939) and Win XP SP2 64bits version. And probably Balena Etcher app as well, but I'm not sure.
I would stay clear of the unofficial SE4 ISO if I were you. I tried it once, and it was sluggish and clearly had to lug around too many clunky elements to be a smooth experience. SP3 is where it is at.
@@garchamp9844I agree SP4 is bit laggy and SP3 is far better. In fact Windows XP without service pack is fastest and requires less memory but has stability issues. SP2 was much better back in those days. As we go on installing service packs the OS keeps on getting bloated. Nowadays XP has become obsolete and we cant risk our computers by going online even after installing SP4 unofficial pack. So SP3 is the safest bet for running good old softwares which we still need. I have few old laptops from 2002 and 2007 or 2008 and thinking to revive them. 2002 model was especially designed for xp and 2007 for vista. Though 2002 model could run windows 95 or earlier too. But this 2007 model has SATA drive requiring separate drivers for xp. I am also planning to mod 11.2.06 intel sata driver to make it generic for xp on any hardware, though there is no guarantee that it would run on latest SATA system.
@@mesterakDont risk your system with suspicious pirated version of xp. Already the support has ended in 2014. With SP4 your system gets updated for 2016 but beyond that xp is unreliable. So you can only use it to run certain old programs that you still need or just play around just for fun. Back in the days of XP i used to play around with windows 98SE and Me. Tried out windows 95 too but all these became obsolete piece of crap that i no longer needed. Same is the case with windows 7 nowadays but i still use it offline.
@@garchamp9844 I avoided SP4 altogether. I use original XP with SP3 and use Legacy Update utility from there. It’s been a solid method for my retro XP builds.
Many many lots of thanks for great vedio sir. I am trying next 1 month to install windows xp in my i3 computer but every time I failure because blue screen error. But after watching your vedio I successfully installed xp .
One of the best things I use for installing any OS is a USB external drive caddy that I put an ssd into and put all my ISOs onto, and it allows me to select the ISO and mounts it as a virtual cd/dvd drive that supports both bios and uefi modes. It runs at up to USB3.0 (approx 500MB/s) depending on the USB port and drive you install into it. It's called the iodd 2531 and cost me about £56, which is expensive for an external HDD caddy, but the virtual cd/dvd drive functionality is worth its weight in gold, some really old motherboards aren't supported, but usually they don't support USB boot anyway so it's a moot point.
@@philscomputerlab I just looked at the listing I bought from and as you say it appears it's no longer available, damn. There is the IODD Mini USB3.0, which is crazy expensive at £147 for a 256GB drive, but it's the only similar product that I can find that is in stock.
@@KH_1 that's a neat tool, but from what I can tell the caddy I use has an advantage, it presents itself as a cd/dvd drive to the bios and that is potentially better supported on systems with weird USB compatibility issues. I'll have to try it out though, and I'm sure Phil will be interested to try it out for himself. I should also mention the caddy I have supports booting floppy disk images too, although I can't recall if it supports write operations to them.
Thanks Phil. I just decided to put XP on my Sandy i5 machine as I already have few machines with more modern OS, and I'll make that a fast XP gaming PC.
The thing with Easy2Boot is that my ISO (has answer file) doesn't work with the newer builds. Also they added other features that make it seem bloat and if all you want is install XP, it's overkill.
I have been trying this method but with windows 2K instead, and even though WinSetupFromUSB supposedly supports 2000, i keep getting a corruption error when installing the press F6 to install the SATA drivers. Ive tried multiple computers, and even multiple USB flash drives. Does anyone know if this is a bug in the software?
That’s an interesting bios - it has not only a splash, but also some sort of a... startup chime? 🤨 Phil, could you tell me what board did you use for this tutorial?
Easy2Boot has served me well and still does, but I would be interested to know whether this alternative deals with older versions of Windows better? I need to install WinME on a Pentium 4 system soon, and I might try out this method if it’ll work.
Win 98 and Win ME best from CD. With Win 98 I know a lot of alternatives as I use it often. For example making it bootable with Floppy and then using a USB HDD adapter to copy Win 98 files, drivers and games.
Having trouble with this. My SATA drive shows up in the BIOS and I have selected AHCI mode. When selecting to use a SATA driver, it gives me a choice of two. One makes the install crash before it reaches the partitioning screen (with a keyboard error!) and with the other, the drive doesn't show up on the partitioning screen.
I'm curious which version of ISO you used, XPSP0, XPSP1, XPSP2. XPSP3 or even XPSP4 and (How) you got USB support into the image before boot? Was it injected by the WinSetupFromUSB ? If so.. do you know which USB controllers it prefers, UHCI, EHCI, OHCI, xHCI ? USB wasn't part of WinXP if I recall from the beginning it was an add-on bus after XP was launched, then we had USB 1.0, 1.1 and USB 2.0 but now we seem to have so much USB 3.0 (NEC/Renesas for the win!) it almost seems like it would be XPSP2 with USB2.0 hardware only. was XP nLite used to customize the ISO? So many possibilities pop into my head.
XP Pro SP3 the 32 Bit version! Best for retro gaming 🙂 The computer has to support USB booting of course. Once inside Windows you get USB 2.0, but for 3.0 speed you need to load drivers first.
For this purpose I was always using MultibootISOs/YUMI/PenDriveLinux tool. You could have multiple Linux distros and Windows versions on single stick. But it was limited to FAT32. Didn't used that for over a decade though.
it's nice that stores still sell dvd-r & cdrom discs, although they're made in questionable quality today, i still find them come in handy for diagnostic purposes.
I have a 120gb SSD that has windows 10, the installation is using the whole capacity, so i shrinked the volume and squeezed about 20gb, thing is, when trying to install XP, the machine doesnt recognise the available space, so i created another partition with those 20gb in NTFS, and the XP setup doesnt recognise that either. Am i doing something wrong?
And whatever configuration you have , it will detect proper sata drivers and make this work ? Because even with proper drivers - F6 etc it's a pain in the ass to make the installation and even impossible on some configs .
I used this very tool a couple of years for an old laptop of mine (2003~2005), I gave it to my niece to play with! Had to mess with advanced mode tho~ Found an old 10GB 44-pin IDE then it was revived as an emulation machine (Attract-mode)
I've tried this, but when I try to do the Windows XP Setup, it just gives me this error "Setup cannot load the keyboard layout kbdus.dll // Setup cannot continue. Shut down or restart your computer." How do I fix that?
I tried installing XP (from a CD) onto a USB drive, so that I can run from the USB, but it didn't work.. it blue-screens while booting. I'm guessing it's because the USB drivers aren't baked into the kernel . Any idea if if XP could install onto a drive connected to a machine's eSATA port, or would it be the same issue? Alternatively, any thoughts on adding WinXP on a PC that already has Win10 installed? I have a 6GB partition, but not sure if there's a preferred way/tool that I should use to make sure the Win10 installation is not affected, and the boot/mbr/uefi allows dual-boot at power-on?
A very informative video. I have a question though as I'm very new to this and need a bit of help with the software side of things. Do I need a Windows Product Key to complete the installation? Thanks!
whenever I plug the flash disk with xp, computer just freezes at logo screen, can't start the installation, however when I use rufus, installation starts but getting error about ''eula not accepted''
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Admittedly, it's been a while since I installed XP from USB, but I seem to remember having pretty good success with Easy2Boot back in the day. One of the advantages there is that you don't need to extract the ISO. You can just dump it (and many other ISOs) onto an Easy2Boot USB drive and go.
I use Ventoy to make a multi-biot USB drive (have to set whether or not the flash drive is either MBR or gpt, and if you want secure boot enabled. Then you just copy the iso files over.
@@corey7219 yeah I don't think Ventoy works with XP, but for non retro stuff it's really awesome!. How good is having only a bunch of ISOs on a USB stick, and still being able to use it for other stuff!
@@nrg753 my exp, it can work with xp, 2k as well, but the issue is often that older systems are....tetchy with booting from usb and you may need to make sure to use a smaller drive i have also found that some you need to make the boot partition fat16, the storage can be fat32 but boot MUST be 16 on some old rigs... its a bios limitation from what i have seen..
there are a stack of ways to do this, on old or new windows, honestly the last time i did it i just copied the command lines from a guide a buddy wrote a long time ago, then copied the files i extracted from the ISO and updated with all the patches and drivers needed, and used unstoppable copier to just copy the folder to the root of the usb.. i could have used the xcopy command but... that would mean more typing .. rather then a few clicks and short wait for the copy to complete..
ventoy CAN work on older systems, i have not tested 9x with it.. but have been told by a buddy who i introduced to ventoy, that hes installed 98se, beos, os/2 warp, nt3.5, nt4, and redhat linux all from that era(redhad from a cd image he made from the first widely distributed redhat book he had is pickup for him.. way back then..), though he did have to update the bios on a few old systems to get them to boot from a normal ventoy disk rather then one with tweaks.
there are a few similar options like Easy2Boot, as well as some micro/mini linux distros that use this method that you can drop more iso's onto the drive along side the linux iso and boot from them via the boot menu... (trick i use to use to setup 9x from an iso on a usb stick back in the day.. also let me boot windowsPE very very fast..
@@nrg753Ventoy is shit
yes easy2boot or rmprepusb tools seem to work best for installing windows xp from usb drive..imo
This video would have been super helpful to me about a month ago while I was struggling using many of the newer methods people have made guides for on YT. x)
Hey Phil! Great to see you again! I have been using WinSetupFromUSB for years for my XP installs - it's been flawless for me every time :)
Great to hear! I've only searched for an alternative to Easy2Boot, it has not worked for me with the recent versions.
Phil showing us anti period correct correct installation of windows xp😅. But! I still very thankful to Phil for SD to IDE, for SATA to IDE, and other tricks. I’m with Chanel since 2015, and learned a lot. Wish you the best!
I learned this method from the windows xp black edition readme text. It works amazing no matter what. Even installed xp on pentium 2 machine with this.
@bierhoff6421 the method shown on the video
I remember long ago being super excited doing my first windows XP install and boot. Modern windows is a bloated mess.
All these years of giving away my old PCs 😢 now I’m scrounging parts to relive a bygone era. Ended up with an old Lenovo h405 barebones kit with 8GB ram and a barely used Radeon HD 7770 dell edition. I’ve never in all my years of installing WinXP used a usb clean and easy install as your guide has provided; thank you 😊 Now onto playing some games! 🍺
I’m scrounging parts
Hey Phil, the last time I installed XP was just after the root certificates expired … it was a bit annoying to do, but I got it working. It seems like a walkthrough for setting up XP with all of the patches and the like people will want installed would be a good idea and companion to a similar video I recall you did for win98/me (which ultimately aren't significantly different anymore, but I'd still recommend 98 so you can write a boot floppy from the GUI if you need one.)
XP is pretty good with talking to floppy drive, for example many tools that create floppies, like DDO managers, will not run on Windows 10, but work on 10. Yea I could do a guide showing how I install XP with all the drivers and have everything up and running.
You could just skip the patches, it's not like you can do anything online with XP anymore anyways. What's the attack surface?
you can actually still make a boot floppy with ME, its just less convenient, a big of googling shows you how, hell you can do it from command prompt with the format command still in ME.. and regardless of what some think and claim, ME still runs on dos, and i have made many a boot floppy from the commandline on ME... back in the day often to allow me to upgrade the system to 98se.. that had far less issues on systems of the era.. mostly due to some stuff that they stuck on with no easy way to disable.. like the proto system restore function thats like NT's restore points...just... not once have i ever seen it work on ME.. when i was in the beta or the full versions i used... not f-ing once... but... yeah... *bangs head into desk* and note by NT i mean 2k/xp/etc, thats more like OS2 then Dos, honestly its too bad MS and IBM split on that... os2/warp was fucking great for some applications, way faster then windows of the era on the same hardware from my exp... and with windows installed you could run most dos and windows apps without much trouble...
@@philscomputerlab I second a nice XP guide with where to find the best drivers, SP4 and things like that
I miss the "Hey guys welcome to another video" 😅
note for anybody whos not an OG geek, but you do not need this tool to setup xp from usb, there are several other ways to do this, this just makes it easier... well to a degree anyway... i have setup 2k and up from usb for a very very very long time, same for 95 and up honestly... though i dont deal with them much anymore outside vm's i have helped get a couple friends old retro systems back up and running and setup to play games of the era... and its funny what comes back to you as you do it... repetition is a hell of a thing...
Tested this method on a ThinkPad T420s and a custom build (Pentium G2xxx + H61 chipset I believe) with success. Installing Windows XP has never been this easy, thank you so much, Phil.
I also installed XP today 😀 Testing two low profile Radeon cards.
how the hell you did that? i have the same laptop, i just get a bluescreen with "first part" and a curser is blinking forever when i try "second part".
Have you changed anything specific in the bios?
@@Simon-jh1hfyes! You gotta change the data drive to ide mode which is by default sata
I have been using this software for years, it works like a charm. As always many thanks for the video, keep up the good work, it's very informative and didactic for me.
Thank you for this, you did it again Phil. Another tool I can use for my xp computers and my daughter's win xp laptop I setup for her.
Phil you missed one crucial piece of information that many (like me) needed to know.
If you get "The bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant." BSOD "Stop error code 0x000000A5" in the first setup. Here is the solution:
When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen. Then all should proceed without issue.
Thanks for the tip! I don't think I've seen this particular error, but good to know 😍
Phil…love your videos. I’ve collected a lot of old pc hardware over the years. Just getting back into retro gaming. How are you guys activating Windows XP? I’ve got versions of every Windows XP…Home, Pro, OEM, upgrade, full, 32 bit and 64 bit. Curious how you guys are getting around this. Thanks for the help.
There are corporate volume license keys that don't require activation. I have one from when I worked IT at a college.
Preactivated ISO
Thank you guys for your help. Now where to start…3DFX…2-5…early GeForce Cards or FX5800…Early Rage or Radeon cards…which CPU motherboard combo…which sound card…which case…ugh. Too many combo’s. Which game?…
You can use the phone activation
OEM versions is what I use the most, along with some preactivated for ones after XP.
The timing of this video is on the spot.
Older versions of UnetBootin and/or Rufus should be able to do this as well. I recall doing it in the past, because it's significantly faster than installing from a CD/DVD Media.
What versions? I can't find any version that works with windows xp
@@felix-cq9eq Last time I did this myself, was back in 2018, setting up an old Lenovo T61 laptop. I used Rufus 2.18 and XP SP2 ISO, that's it.
I know for a fact, that I used UnetBootin even earlier on, before I learned about Rufus.
Now what Phil is showing, is when SATA drivers are needed, which is something the other method doesn't support.
I've been doing this method for years; The other application setups never worked for me.
I will give this one a try - despite getting easy2boot working the first time months ago, I couldn't get it working on my recent reinstall. I ended up with a half working DVD install using nLite to add SATA drivers. Running Haswell with a Samsung SSD... just need to track down a suitable PSU so I can run my Radeons in Crossfire.
Always awesome content! Now I can finally ditch that DVD drive!
Thanks, much easier than easy2boot.
So, the sata driver was provided from the program it self. Very very nice to have it.
Same as Easy2Boot. In fact, WinSetupFromUSB took (with permission) the original code from E2B!
What's up Phil!
Very useful for all. Thanks, Phil!
thanks a lot phil!
more power to xp.
Omg man you are awesome i tried too many tutorials this one works 100%
Glad to hear that
I use Easy2Boot, got a few ISOs on the pen, XP, Vista and 7, also use it for drivers and other things when you needed to burn to a CDR and boot from DOS.
I tried it and then I uninstalled Windows 11.
Me too 😂
I tried it once without watching the video and thank god it did not uninstall windows 11
It automatically uninstalled my windows 10
Sound like you selected the wrong drive
Lmao
That video was really useful. I tried to install Windows XP x64 edition and it worked flawlessly. Really nice tutorial.
Oooof!!! I need this tutorial last week. I was having a hard time with installing XP onto a FX build. Motherboard doesn't have a floppy and ACHI drivers sucked to get to load up before install. I finally just installed it on IDE mode, then I placed the driver in driver folder in system32 and then made a registry change file to point it to the driver.
Yes using IDE gets the job done in many cases 🙂
I always use the iso that has sata driver built in, and also with ventoy
Should be working on core 2 duo system
I heard of ventoy, but haven't had luck with it. But good it works for you!
Rufus also works just fine for me, atleast for socket 939 agp platform ( Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939) and Win XP SP2 64bits version. And probably Balena Etcher app as well, but I'm not sure.
Okay, thank you for letting me know and for your quick reply. This will save me a lot of time trying to make it work.
we must have time difference, I just saw update🙄
Thanks Phil! I will try this installer method today as I am trying out a new XP ISO that apparently has most patches pre applied
I would stay clear of the unofficial SE4 ISO if I were you. I tried it once, and it was sluggish and clearly had to lug around too many clunky elements to be a smooth experience. SP3 is where it is at.
@@garchamp9844 I’ve been using SP3 with WSUS updates for years but wanted to try out XP integral edition to see if it reduces the OS update work
@@garchamp9844I agree SP4 is bit laggy and SP3 is far better. In fact Windows XP without service pack is fastest and requires less memory but has stability issues. SP2 was much better back in those days. As we go on installing service packs the OS keeps on getting bloated.
Nowadays XP has become obsolete and we cant risk our computers by going online even after installing SP4 unofficial pack. So SP3 is the safest bet for running good old softwares which we still need.
I have few old laptops from 2002 and 2007 or 2008 and thinking to revive them. 2002 model was especially designed for xp and 2007 for vista. Though 2002 model could run windows 95 or earlier too. But this 2007 model has SATA drive requiring separate drivers for xp. I am also planning to mod 11.2.06 intel sata driver to make it generic for xp on any hardware, though there is no guarantee that it would run on latest SATA system.
@@mesterakDont risk your system with suspicious pirated version of xp. Already the support has ended in 2014. With SP4 your system gets updated for 2016 but beyond that xp is unreliable. So you can only use it to run certain old programs that you still need or just play around just for fun.
Back in the days of XP i used to play around with windows 98SE and Me. Tried out windows 95 too but all these became obsolete piece of crap that i no longer needed.
Same is the case with windows 7 nowadays but i still use it offline.
@@garchamp9844 I avoided SP4 altogether. I use original XP with SP3 and use Legacy Update utility from there. It’s been a solid method for my retro XP builds.
Way more convenient, than messing with those easily scratchable optical 📀. Thanks for the video ☺️👍!
Convenient? Find a board that support USB boot.. 1 out of 100!!!! Even my P8Z68-V PRO cannot boot from USB_XP, only w7+w11.
Thank you Phil that really helped me as i tried the other day and well i dident do it your way but i will thanks again
Live for 8 hours … already has double the views vs my video on the same topic 😂😭
Great video as always Phil!
Keep at it. The channel will grow!
@@MarcoGPUtuber thanks!
Great video, after hours of frustration, this method was a godsend 👌
Win from usb I have used a ton for retro PCs!
Xp in that tool has to be ntfs or it’s so slow it’s like installing xp on usb 1.0 with more
Many many lots of thanks for great vedio sir. I am trying next 1 month to install windows xp in my i3 computer but every time I failure because blue screen error. But after watching your vedio I successfully installed xp .
Awesome!
Nice one Phil.
big thanks my friend! 🎉
Having storage controller drivers is handy as, AHCI as well :)
Yes it's annoying having to slipstream or use F6 method and insert floppy 😅
'm Brazilian and without a doubt this is the best XP installation tutorial. thank you very much!
Wow, thanks!
One of the best things I use for installing any OS is a USB external drive caddy that I put an ssd into and put all my ISOs onto, and it allows me to select the ISO and mounts it as a virtual cd/dvd drive that supports both bios and uefi modes.
It runs at up to USB3.0 (approx 500MB/s) depending on the USB port and drive you install into it.
It's called the iodd 2531 and cost me about £56, which is expensive for an external HDD caddy, but the virtual cd/dvd drive functionality is worth its weight in gold, some really old motherboards aren't supported, but usually they don't support USB boot anyway so it's a moot point.
This is genius thanks for the info
Yea heard of those, I looked into it but stock and pricing seems an issue, maybe they are discontinued?
@@philscomputerlab I just looked at the listing I bought from and as you say it appears it's no longer available, damn.
There is the IODD Mini USB3.0, which is crazy expensive at £147 for a 256GB drive, but it's the only similar product that I can find that is in stock.
Ventoy have similar function and it's free. 😂
@@KH_1 that's a neat tool, but from what I can tell the caddy I use has an advantage, it presents itself as a cd/dvd drive to the bios and that is potentially better supported on systems with weird USB compatibility issues.
I'll have to try it out though, and I'm sure Phil will be interested to try it out for himself.
I should also mention the caddy I have supports booting floppy disk images too, although I can't recall if it supports write operations to them.
Thanks Phil. I just decided to put XP on my Sandy i5 machine as I already have few machines with more modern OS, and I'll make that a fast XP gaming PC.
Sandy Bridge is PERFECT for a fast XP machine! What games do you want to play?
Thanks to you Sir for saving me in 2023, when trying to load windows xp in SSD. 👍🙏
I downloaded successfully and try it later. Thank you🥰
Thanks dude i will start whatching your videos
I was installing it like that in 2011-2012.
The boot just blue screen so i cant download so i download use laptop
It seems like an easier option than the Easy2Boot i've tried before...
The thing with Easy2Boot is that my ISO (has answer file) doesn't work with the newer builds. Also they added other features that make it seem bloat and if all you want is install XP, it's overkill.
this doesnt work after choosing the 1st option on the usb menu it gave me an error
This is how i've been doing it for awhile now. And with Windows 2000.
it does work on windows 2000 my retro dreams are now complete
Awesome!
With this method can you use "vanilla" (non-modified) WinXP ISO, or do you need to slipstream SATA drivers into ISO anyway?
Yes absolutely!
Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
Somewhere create an virtual .img hdd image
Thanks Phil, this worked on my old previously vista Laptop that for some reason just wouldn't boot from my usual Rufus made winXP install USB
What are your Opinions Phil and viewers. Win XP or 98 for a voodoo 4(AGP) timemachine with a really strong CPU 1ghz+
98
I have been trying this method but with windows 2K instead, and even though WinSetupFromUSB supposedly supports 2000, i keep getting a corruption error when installing the press F6 to install the SATA drivers. Ive tried multiple computers, and even multiple USB flash drives. Does anyone know if this is a bug in the software?
That’s an interesting bios - it has not only a splash, but also some sort of a... startup chime? 🤨 Phil, could you tell me what board did you use for this tutorial?
A Huananzhi board from AliExpress. If I remember it's a X99-BD4.
Easy2Boot has served me well and still does, but I would be interested to know whether this alternative deals with older versions of Windows better? I need to install WinME on a Pentium 4 system soon, and I might try out this method if it’ll work.
Win 98 and Win ME best from CD. With Win 98 I know a lot of alternatives as I use it often. For example making it bootable with Floppy and then using a USB HDD adapter to copy Win 98 files, drivers and games.
Wow this is really nice, not depending of a DVD drive. Neat.
great work bro thank you so much
++++That's Perfect! Thanks for sharing, I've become stingy lately in wanting to buy CD-R's lol
Having trouble with this. My SATA drive shows up in the BIOS and I have selected AHCI mode. When selecting to use a SATA driver, it gives me a choice of two. One makes the install crash before it reaches the partitioning screen (with a keyboard error!) and with the other, the drive doesn't show up on the partitioning screen.
I solved it. I had to still press F6 and manually select both drivers before the HDD would show up.
Worked!!! Thanks
I still have my XP and the original laptop. Yes, I am a pack rat; however, it still works!
I'm curious which version of ISO you used, XPSP0, XPSP1, XPSP2. XPSP3 or even XPSP4 and (How) you got USB support into the image before boot? Was it injected by the WinSetupFromUSB ? If so.. do you know which USB controllers it prefers, UHCI, EHCI, OHCI, xHCI ? USB wasn't part of WinXP if I recall from the beginning it was an add-on bus after XP was launched, then we had USB 1.0, 1.1 and USB 2.0 but now we seem to have so much USB 3.0 (NEC/Renesas for the win!) it almost seems like it would be XPSP2 with USB2.0 hardware only. was XP nLite used to customize the ISO? So many possibilities pop into my head.
XP Pro SP3 the 32 Bit version! Best for retro gaming 🙂 The computer has to support USB booting of course. Once inside Windows you get USB 2.0, but for 3.0 speed you need to load drivers first.
For this purpose I was always using MultibootISOs/YUMI/PenDriveLinux tool. You could have multiple Linux distros and Windows versions on single stick. But it was limited to FAT32. Didn't used that for over a decade though.
Too complicated teddy bear Phil, I rather use the good old Compact Disc, I recommend the Sony ones, they last long.
it's nice that stores still sell dvd-r & cdrom discs, although they're made in questionable quality today, i still find them come in handy for diagnostic purposes.
glad to see if work with xp , it would be a miracle program it would work on windows 2000 as well
ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE
I don't see hdd or ssd, how do I fix it?
Try setting the storage option to IDE in the BIOS!
*Thanks man!*
Very interesting 😄
Thank you for your super well explained video, is it serious if I missed a step before the installation?
What do you mean exactly?
Thanks a lot man!
I have a 120gb SSD that has windows 10, the installation is using the whole capacity, so i shrinked the volume and squeezed about 20gb, thing is, when trying to install XP, the machine doesnt recognise the available space, so i created another partition with those 20gb in NTFS, and the XP setup doesnt recognise that either. Am i doing something wrong?
Very helpful..thanks a lot.
Rufus works too! Don't need anything else either. Turns any ISO into a bootable USB for BIOS or UEFI.
Not with XP.
Thank you! Stay blessed and blesser!
Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life
I'll be trying this out after using Rufus to see how easier it is :)
update: rufus still works just fine, idk how but it does
Windows 7 next, I really appreciated 👌🧐
Windows 7 just use RUFUS to write ISO onto USB, or use this tool if you want one stick for all the operating Systems 🙂
@@philscomputerlab it's more interesting when you do it
And whatever configuration you have , it will detect proper sata drivers and make this work ? Because even with proper drivers - F6 etc it's a pain in the ass to make the installation and even impossible on some configs .
Try it! It has most SATA drivers integrated and auto detects the correct one.
I used this very tool a couple of years for an old laptop of mine (2003~2005), I gave it to my niece to play with!
Had to mess with advanced mode tho~
Found an old 10GB 44-pin IDE then it was revived as an emulation machine (Attract-mode)
I've tried this, but when I try to do the Windows XP Setup, it just gives me this error "Setup cannot load the keyboard layout kbdus.dll // Setup cannot continue. Shut down or restart your computer."
How do I fix that?
I tried installing XP (from a CD) onto a USB drive, so that I can run from the USB, but it didn't work.. it blue-screens while booting. I'm guessing it's because the USB drivers aren't baked into the kernel . Any idea if if XP could install onto a drive connected to a machine's eSATA port, or would it be the same issue?
Alternatively, any thoughts on adding WinXP on a PC that already has Win10 installed? I have a 6GB partition, but not sure if there's a preferred way/tool that I should use to make sure the Win10 installation is not affected, and the boot/mbr/uefi allows dual-boot at power-on?
WinSetupFromUSB 1.09 and 1.10 won't work on my win 11 computer stops when it gets to some Grub file and then just shuts off.
Ah that's annoying. You can try Easy2Boot? I've used it recently and I stalled XP just fine in a P31 Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G.
Thanks Phil. Do you know if this installer will work with Via chipsets? Thanks
With VIA be careful, the SATA ports can be weird, but otherwise should be fine.
@@philscomputerlab Not forgetting the infamous soundcard issues with VIA chipsets.
A very informative video. I have a question though as I'm very new to this and need a bit of help with the software side of things. Do I need a Windows Product Key to complete the installation?
Thanks!
WinSetupFromUsb Stopped working
Absolute G
i love u so much bro, thanks very much
whenever I plug the flash disk with xp, computer just freezes at logo screen, can't start the installation, however when I use rufus, installation starts but getting error about ''eula not accepted''
thank you 😍
After the reboot, when i choose second part of installation, it just gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor. The SSD has the windows folder