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

@bierhoff6421 the method shown on the video

Great to hear! I've only searched for an alternative to Easy2Boot, it has not worked for me with the recent versions.

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 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

Glad to hear that

I’m scrounging parts

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.

Same as Easy2Boot. In fact, WinSetupFromUSB took (with permission) the original code from E2B!

Yes using IDE gets the job done in many cases 🙂

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.

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.

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 heard of ventoy, but haven't had luck with it. But good it works for you!

Xp in that tool has to be ntfs or it’s so slow it’s like installing xp on usb 1.0 with more

Yes it's annoying having to slipstream or use F6 method and insert floppy 😅

Sandy Bridge is PERFECT for a fast XP machine! What games do you want to play?

Thanks for the tip! I don't think I've seen this particular error, but good to know 😍

Awesome!

Wow, thanks!

Awesome!

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

Keep at it. The channel will grow!

@@MarcoGPUtuber thanks!

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 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.

update: rufus still works just fine, idk how but it does

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.

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

Try setting the storage option to IDE in the BIOS!

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.

Yes absolutely!

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.

Not with XP.

98

Try it! It has most SATA drivers integrated and auto detects the correct one.

I solved it. I had to still press F6 and manually select both drivers before the HDD would show up.