How to Run Xp on Modern Hardware

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Jan i, 2018

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What: I currently want to install Windows XP 32 scrap sp3 onto a modern figurer. I take a pc with an AMD Ryzen 3 1200 cpu and gtx 1050, equally well as a 120gb windows 10 boot ssd, 240gb ssd with games on information technology, and a 500gb sata hdd game bulldoze.

What i have tried: I accept extracted a windows xp trial vhd file from the windows xp way programme for windows 7 downloaded direct from microsoft 100% legally. This copy of windows xp is sp3, 32bit, and has almost just maybe not all final updates. Sp3 should support sata difficult drives but no gpt. I have extracted the vhd to a 500gb sata hdd formatted with mbr to get past the mbr limits of 32bit xp. I have used a program to add the xp vhd to the kicking manager. And at present when i boot my pc from my 120gb ssd i become an option to kick to xp or ten.

Trouble: When i boot into xp i immediately get a a windows xp boot director screen telling me that winload.efi could not start due to a hardware consequence, no surprise. Since windows couldnt even attempt to load the startup file this makes me thing a difficult drive trouble. Information technology seems the xp boot manager cannot communicate with the hdd later on the win x boot director loads the xp boot manager into ram. I get the aforementioned message whether the hdd is installed through usb, sata, or even partitioned every bit gpt, although it is partitioned equally mbr right at present. The programme i used to create the boot manager entry (the cmd manner failed) says on startup my bios is operating in uefi fashion that could interfere with dual booting. Could this be the issue and how practise i change this in my msi b350 gaming plus bios.

I also have an ivy bridge laptop with xp drivers that i may try this in, still this laptop merely has 1 sata port meaning id couldnt install my win 10 ssd and xp hdd into the laptop to dualboot at the same time.

What other settings practice i demand to modify to get xp to kicking on a modernistic pc?

Last edited: February xviii, 2019

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You probably will not exist able to go information technology to kick. Even if you could change your BIOS to load into Legacy mode, you would have to run through the BIOS to run across if information technology even supports information technology, there are no chipset or GPU drivers for XP for that hardware.

Some other note, Intel is pushing to finally impale off Legacy back up in BIOS by 2020 and about probable AMD volition follow suit if they have non already.

Your best bet? Installing vii or newer and running XP in a VM or using VMWare to run XP in a VM on the automobile. Otherwise you wont exist able to exercise it. Also even if you exercise run a VM I doubt the update servers for XP are still running.

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Why you desire to run XP? Due to external hardware?

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You're yet on this XP thing? You remember the give-and-take we had about Vista, right? (and vista is newer than XP)

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Yes im still trying the somewhat impossible. I mainly desire to run xp for older games and nostalgia, and i know xp is impractical for any modernistic day use. I finally have gotten my pc to recognise an xp bulldoze equally bootable, so im trying again at present that i got my last roadblock out of the way. I will wait in my bios for compatability mode. My ivy bridge laptop wouldnt recognice a vista hdd running in uefi mode so my ryzen pc wouldnt recognise xp hdd either in uefi. Vista hdd was recognised past my laptop in csm mode, admittedly it wouldnt get further than the recovery bill of fare, but ill try that with xp.

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My bios boot mode is legacy+uefi. Ill root around for more legacy settings.

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I wish you lot luck on the endeavor though information technology volition be hard to impossible. Another thing to proceed in heed is some older games may not piece of work well with the newer hardware, I once got Descent: Destination Saturn to run on a much newer Windows vii machine. Suffice to say there was no frame limiter and the game ran at thousands of FPS which in turn also made the game run every bit if it were in super speed, pressing West would wing me through half a map.

Still your biggest issue is going to be drivers. nVidia, to my knowledge, has not provided XP drivers for their products since XP support ended, actually before that nigh hardware manufactures started dropping support.

Your best bet beyond a VM would be to detect and buy older hardware that did have XP drovers and support.

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Ok. I accept pretty much given up on the trial vhd. The vhd from microsoft doesnt fifty-fifty contain winload.efi or winload.exe in the arrangement 32 folder (exploring in 7zip so information technology could exist subconscious) then booting to information technology will be nearly impossible using the xp kicking managing director which looks for the above files. I really dont experience like trying another kick manager.

I actually do have some hardware that is compatable with windows xp. I have a toshiba satellite L55 with 8gb of ddr3, Cadre i5 3337u, integrated hard disk graphics,an optical bulldoze, and i believe the touchpad uses a ps2 interface. When searching for the processor specs i constitute that intel has windows xp drivers for the integrated hd gpu and further investigation atomic number 82 to me finding that the toshiba back up page has some drivers for xp on this laptop. Xp 32bit wont allow for all of the ram to be used just 3.5gb allowed with 32bit should work for me. I may chuck my 120gb ssd with win ten from my chief pc in it and install windows xp to a 2nd partition from the optical drive if any room remains.

My erstwhile laptop has a generally locked down insyde h2o bios which surprisingly has options for disabling secure boot and enabling all kinds of legacy compatability modes for booting and drives. Information technology does accept csm mode that alloes me to boot from some linux os that dont work with eufi from my findings.
What exactly do i need to alter in order to get xp to run on this modern but still supported hardware?

Last edited: Feb 19, 2019

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Many people just observe older computers to run older Bone for games, or use programs like DOSBox to run games on modern systems. I got some Lucas Arts games running on Windows 7 that way, specifically Full Throttle.

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