Windows XP...? In 2019!!!? Ideas?

[igor_kavinski]

I wonder if it's possible to setup an image in a virtual machine, and move it to a "real" machine?

Did that experiment work?

 

[igor_kavinski]

The built system has worked flawlessly.

What specs?

 

[TheELF]

Did that experiment work?

The thing that works 100% is to create a virtual Disk, and do the first part of the installation that only copies files, then when it tells you that it will reboot to complete shut it off instead and boot with a different image containing ghost.exe or any other cloning tool and take a clone of the first image. This image can be cloned to any hdd and upon first boot will continue with a normal installation.

You can also just connect the whole disk you want XP on to your VM and do this first part of the installation and then put it back to the PC that you want XP installed on.

Saves you a good amount of time and especially headaches of getting things to boot be recognised and whatnot.

 

[igor_kavinski]

You can also just connect the whole disk you want XP on to your VM and do this first part of the installation and then put it back to the PC that you want XP installed on.

That used to be possible with Microsoft Virtual PC. I don't think Virtual Box allows this. Didn't see this option with VMware Player too. Maybe VMware workstation? But that's not free. Does Hyper-V have this option? Don't recall seeing it in the Hyper-V manager.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Did that experiment work?

Never got around to it. TheELFs is probably the way to go.

What specs?

Asus A68HM-PLUS
Athlon 845
2x2GB DDR3-1600 (only 4GB for obvious reasons)
EVGA GT710
Was it a Crucial BX100 120GB...?

That's about it. Nothing particularly fancy.

 

[TheELF]

That used to be possible with Microsoft Virtual PC. I don't think Virtual Box allows this. Didn't see this option with VMware Player too. Maybe VMware workstation? But that's not free. Does Hyper-V have this option? Don't recall seeing it in the Hyper-V manager.

You have to start up VMware player with right click run as admin, because this is a feature that allows you to potentially screw up your whole system it's not just there for anybody right away, you have to want it to enable it (or be allowed by an actual admin).
If you then go to the settings of an VM you can add a hard drive and 'use a physical disk'

 

[TwoWings]

Never got around to it. TheELFs is probably the way to go.



Asus A68HM-PLUS
Athlon 845
2x2GB DDR3-1600 (only 4GB for obvious reasons)
EVGA GT710
Was it a Crucial BX100 120GB...?

That's about it. Nothing particularly fancy.

Cool! you have tha same Asus as me. Works well with dual boot and special xp sata drivers.