However there exists windows XP Professional installation key. The Windows XP download has multilingual support of more than 35 languages other than standard English.
So in order to change language you need to download Windows XP language pack. However, Win XP is available in following languages. You can download language pack and activate them if you want. In the Windows Update dialog box, click ' Check for Updates ' or similar button depending on your Windows version If updates are available for download, click ' Install Updates '.
This basically encapsulates the standard windows xp install method inside a wim file. Because it will install completely from the hard drive the installation time is decreased significantly.
Step 1 - Boot to WinPE 2 or higher. Step 2 - Setup a regular drive or partition using diskpart. The review for Grub2Win has not been completed yet, but it was tested by an editor here on a PC. Grub2Win is an open source program to safely dual-boot Windows and Linux. First i got to check that after copying windows files into a NTFS volume will setup. This isnt going to work because are not understaning how wim works.
Wim is not an install method. Basically during an vista install it extracts the wim to the harddrive. It is just a faster complete vista install. In a sense a wim is a zip file. You simply cant do this with a naked xp discs. Now if you were to install xp, sysprep it and then capture the image you might have something you can distribute easily. As for it being hal independent I dont see the point in that unless you got some real old stuff that shouldnt be running xp anyways.
This is just a crazy idea I just had, and I have no clue if this will work but you can try it out. OK so we know that when you install XP, it goes into the blue setup screen, wants you to press buttons like R and L and F8 and stuff. Then it shoots that red bar across the screen to reboot. When the computer reboots, it runs the install from the Hard Disk and not the CD. It may be possible to capture Drive C between the reboot prompt and the start of installation. However, I do not know if the installer makes any reference to the CD during install, but it may be possible to create a RAMDRIVE with applicable files to fool the installer if this is at all possible.
Now you should have a hardware independent XP image. You can now copy the XP Wim image to keep as a backup copy. Because it will install completely from the hard drive the installation time is decreased significantly.
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