Well, it's totally installable from DOS and this way you don't have to mess with USB sticks. The only downside is that you have to use a FAT or FAT32 partition. (it can be converted to NTFS later)

This is how I did it back in 2003... but I honestly completely forgot that you can do it from DOS. I think this is the last Windows that can be started from DOS.

Windows XP had setup floppys. WHich won't help, as modern hardware doesn't have native flopy support on them. And USB-floppy (and even blank floppys) are hard to get by.

@@Sypaka Actually any modern BIOS will report an USB floppy as a regular floppy and you can use it as the A: drive in DOS, you can even load drivers during the F6 phase of the XP setup. The problem is that you can use USB emulated devices only in the DOS part of the installation. After XP leaves the real mode and works its own... you loose any connection to the USB and mouse emulated as PS/2 devices by the BIOS, also there no connection to the USB floppy also. The bad part is that XP will access floppy twice for the disk drivers, once in the DOS part where it actually works, and a second time when the connection to the USB emulated floppy is lost. The result is that XP is asking introduce a floppy and press ENTER... and you cannot continue installation.

Next video please 😢

I'm not against ACPI of course... Like I said in the video ACPI is a big deal, but the driver included in this integral edition (supposedly the most recent one) causes a BSOD during the install so the solution to install XP was to do it without ACPI. Later on, you can look for a patched driver and enable ACPI by modifying some registry entries.

@@O_mores The updated ACPI driver isn't integrated into the ISO image by default, it uses the original version of the ACPI driver by default, hence the A5 BSOD. So make sure to use the patch integrator to get all the updated drivers. Disabling ACPI during setup with mean you'll only get 1 CPU core. Enabling ACPI via registry hack doesn't work correctly without the correct ntoskrnl and HAL in place - So a fresh install with ACPI enabled already is best.

At 1:56 I'm using the UniATA drivers with the on board SATA. So it's possible to use XP on a socket 1700 mobo without any extra adapter. This VIA6421 that I'm usig is only PCI. But almost every SATA I & SATA II PCI-E adapters are XP compatible. (some might be incompatible with your motherboard though) The funny thing with these UniATA drivers is that I couldn't slipstream them into a SP3 ISO using "nLite". (which is the primary tool to make these updated XP ISOs) So I had to install XP using the PCI adapter then I installed the UniATA drivers from the Control Panel. I'll try to add these UniATA drivers manually into a XP ISO, I know how to do it, but it takes time and there are many edits which are necessary in the txtsetup.sif file.

There are modded Intel SATA drivers, that can be integrated into the ISO using nLite

From what I know nVidia didn't write XP drivers for the Pascal architecture (series 1000). GTX 1050 is not a rebranded 9xxx Maxwell card, but a genuine Pascal card - so it can't be used with some modded drivers (modified .INFs) from the previous generation. Officially, GTX980/TI are not supported in XP but they work perfectly fine, you just have to look from some drivers with modified .inf like I did in this video.

PCI-E to PCI adapters are very compatible, they work like a regular PCI slot. I have use them with Windows 3.11, 95, NT etc. Having PCI slots right on the motherboard is more ergonomic of course, but makes no difference compatibility wise since most motherboards use the ASMEDIA 1083 PCI-E to PCI bridge chip. Guess what? Most stand alone adapters use the very same chip. (But there are some chips from PLX, Pericom also.) For XP you can solve anything with PCI-E hardware, there are sound cards, LAN adapters, wireless cards, SATA PCI-E adapters with XP drivers.

Of course, I have done it in the past many times. But this time I used the most recent XP ISO which should have the most recent drivers... Anyway nLite is not perfect - some drivers won't work. I tried to incorporate the UniATA drivers and it didn't end well. I can incorporate drivers manually into txtsetup.sif but there is a lot of editing to do... I did it once for Windows 2000.

I will try of course, now I'm making a video about a 486 DX/100. :) When I'm done, I'll go back to Intel 13th gen. :)

Well, games are all fine since you can install GeForce 900 series GPUs using official nVidia drivers... made for XP. A 980Ti should be able to handle Crysis after all... ;))

It was on purpose... Usually I install XP in multi-boot environment and a FAT32 partition can be used in Windows 95/98/Me also. You would be surprised how fast you run out of space, especially when you want to mount some ISO image with Daemon tools.