
Windows XP Install ISOs
Note: Windows Setup will indicate what drive letter it will assign to each partition when you select one of the partitions to install to. If you want to ensure that the XP partition boots as drive C:, then ensure the Active (boot) flag is set on that Primary partition and it is the first hard disk in the system. You can use a disk utility such as Diskpart to make the correct partition the Active partition (or use the grub4dos prompt and the makeactive command - e.g. makeactive (hd1,1) will make the first internal hard disk's second partition active, because the E2B USB drive will be hd0 under grub4dos).
Tip: 'STOP: 0x000000A5' BSOD error - to fix this, when Setup prompts you to press F6 to install drivers, press the F7 key instead.For 'STOP: 0x0000007E ACPI.SYS' error - press F5 and select a different option. Disable ACPI in BIOS settings. Update BIOS version.
If it is 64-bit Windows XP, ensure that the numbers '64' are used in it's name - this will suppress the DPMS feature (DPMS only works for 32-bit XP)
1. Windows XP Installs in two steps using E2B+DPMS (driver pack mass storage files)

2. Windows XP 64-bit installs using the F6 method
2. Choose from the list of XP ISOs.
3. You will see some instructions about pressing F6 - on some systems pressing F6 during Windows XP Setup is not necessary. So try without pressing F6 first.
32-bit XP - If you get a BSOD in Step 1 or XP cannot detect your internal hard drive, then reboot and press F6 and select FiraDisk32+WinVBlock32. If you have a system which uses a SATA AHCI HDD controller, also add that driver too (if it is present). See here for a list of AHCI drivers included with the F6 XP install process used in E2B. You can identify your AHCI controller using the List Disk Controller PCI IDs [L] menu.
64-bit XP - select 64-bit FiraDisk driver after pressing F6. See Tutorial 30 for how XP ISO installs work using FiraDisk, etc.
5. Reboot back to the E2B USB drive (do NOT allow the computer to boot from the internal HDD). Select Ctrl-I and Alt+2 for Step 2.
6. The system should now boot from the internal HDD and continue the GUI Setup phase of the XP install. It may be necessary to confirm the loading of some drivers during this phase.
7. Once XP has been fully installed, you can delete the storage drivers which show up as errors in Device Manager and then install all drivers for your hardware in the usual way.
3. Tablet PC and Media Center Edition
4. XP ISOs using $OEM$ folder
E2B does not support modified XP ISO files which include a \$OEM$\ folder structure and use OEMPREINSTALL=Yes in a WINNT.SIF file.
If E2B finds such an ISO, it will automatically modify the ISO to change it to OEMPREINSTALL=No - this means that the $OEM$ folder will not be used and the XP files will not install correctly.
Solution
To work around this:
1. Create a new USB Flash drive using WinSetupFromUSB and your XP ISO file (Do NOT use the ISO file that is already on the E2B drive because it will have been permanently patched by E2B - use an original copy of the XP ISO).
2. Test that your WinSetupFromUSB flash drive works correctly
3. Drag-and-drop the WinSetupFromUSB flash drive letter onto the MPI_FAT32 or MPI_NTFS Desktop shortcut to make a new .imgPTN file from the USB drive (you will need to install the MPI Tool Kit onto your office Windows system)
4. Copy the .imgPTN file to your E2B USB drive (e.g. \_ISO\MAINMENU or \_ISO\WIN)
Note: A .imgPTN file will not work in the \_ISO\WINDOWS\XP folder.
See here for more details.
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