Damnation

Out of curiosity I was looking at windows 10 ntoskrnl with dependency walker and noticed all these ext-ms-win dll files it depends on. I noticed however that the files do not seem to exist in c:\windows\system32 (or sysWOW64) - So where are these dependencies actually located?

does anyone know how to install a syspreped XP WIM Image from winPE? I've tried, but i keep getting a "Windows could not display the images for installation" error at the image selection phase. - any help?

I went and made my own install wim file. Now when I try to install, it displays "Windows could not display the images for installation" If anyone knows how to fix this I would appreciate it.

I was just wondering is there a pre-prepared XP WIM file available anywhere?

anywhere publicly?

which one? is it available online anywhere?

Did any of the Vista betas use NTLDR as bootkoader?

At the very least, AM4 boards would need CSM to support non-EFI booting. Without that XP would never boot (unless someone manages to hack EFI support).

Oh I see, I missed that post! Thanks!

Does anyone know where I can find stpboot.bin as referred to in this thread? Make your own NT OS Loader (NTLDR+SetupLDR)! https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5880 - The link used in the thread appears to be dead

try Snappy Driver Installer https://sdi-tool.org/download/ worked for me

@piotrhnThanks, Whilst I was experimenting with the code I noticed that the patched ws2_32.dll and uxtheme.dll were showing up as garbage in CFF explorer whereas the other patched DLLs seemed to be fine.

This code (an old version of kernelex, written in VC++ 6.0) edits PE files. The code adds a second .data section to dll files instead of the existing .data section. I'd like it to edit the existing section, rather than adding a new one. If anyone knows how to fix it would be appreciated. https://ufile.io/6am9o

This code adds a second .data section to dll files instead of the existing .data section. If anyone knows how to fix it would be appreciated. https://ufile.io/6am9o

I'm trying to find the part of the code that calls the section it creates "KernelEx" and change it, but I can't seem to find it. edit: found it in common.h

I'm going to try something, I'll let you know if it works.

I tried the patched dlls (renamed tmp files as you suggested) got a STOP c0000021a BSOD error

observed an error in shell32.dll reboot fine though.

what sort of problems would this cause for XP?

how did you notice it was creating the export table after the relocation and resources table? what tool did you use?

progress - mine fails trying to create the recovery batch file source: https://ufile.io/5v3i2

not using XP @Dibya?

@Dibya You are right, it does not depend on kmdf, my bad

isn't intel graphics a kernel mode driver? intel graphics kernel mode driver igdkmd64.sys

I think you also need the kernel mode driver framework - wdfldr.sys and wdf01000.sys But I admit I could be wrong about that.