6 hours ago, KittyMaster said:

Use bootsect.exe to update the bootcode : BIOS worked.

Windows 7 do not support EFI boot , choose BIOS.

6 hours ago, KittyMaster said:

I cannot find my WinNTSetup.log file.

it's in Windows\Logs\WinNTSetup\

Hi, @JFX!

Turkish language file for WinNTSetup v5.3.5.2 is ready. Could you please add it?

Best Regards.

 

Turkish language file for WinNTSetup v5.3.5.2.zip

On 7/4/2024 at 5:18 PM, KittyMaster said:

I've two issues.

1st issue:
Use bootsect.exe to update the bootcode : ALL results in following

Windows 7 in UEFI mode is a bit picky about partition layout. It only support GPT.

 

On 7/4/2024 at 5:18 PM, KittyMaster said:

2nd issue:
I've placed the correct x64 files from Win8 backported drivers as instructed, but USB3 still didn't work:

The backported driver were update and are now signed with SHA-256.
So this method does not work, unless you find the older drivers.

Good autounattend generator, include Defender management and more:

https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

Edited July 10, 20242 yr by belivakov

Attaboy! Just what it takes. Why don't we customize it to the way(s) that most suit one's liking?

 

Edited July 10, 20242 yr by Antonino

Great work man! Thanks for this awesome tool! Is it possible to add features to convert wim/iso 2 vhd and vice versa? Also, itd be nice if we could boot the wim/iso with qemu from winntsetup as a test run. Thanks in advance

5.3.5-5.3.5.2, an error message "Access to wimgapi is denied" appears. I tried copying wimgapi.dll to \Tools\x64, but it still happens. How can I fix this? Currently, I can only use 5.3.4 to avoid this problem.

@ibay770 WinNTSetup has reach EOL status.

You could use it's command line options to automate these steps.

 

@hhui Access denied error is very common with wimgapi or Dism, WinNTSetup already use Trusted Installer rights to overcome some of them.

You could try wimlib (top right window icon --> WIM API --> wimlib) for apply instead.

I have selected wimlib but still getting the error. I don't know why.

Than maybe something is wrong with the WIM files you have.

7 hours ago, JFX said:

Than maybe something is wrong with the WIM files you have.

I installed three versions of Win11 and none of them worked. I gave up and just used 5.3.4.

Edited July 19, 20242 yr by hhui
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Hello I need help.
 I have an old laptop fujitsu siemens amilo m14255
cd rom doesn't work
need to install Windows XP
I tried to boot from USB. I tried different programs - Rufus, WinSetupFromUSB. FAT16, FAT32, NTFS. Tried different settings. Etc.
 Well, most likely because of the old BIOS I get the error "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"
Then from another computer I tried to write Windows to a hard drive using WinNTSetup. I installed Windows in virtualbox and copied it along with the bootloader. But I get the error "error loading operating system"

 

Addition to the above, everything worked. Thank you.

When I had two partitions 100 MB (asset) and the rest - it didn't work. I divided the bootloader and installation files into two partitions.

But when I merged 2 partitions into 1, and installed the bootloader and installation files on one partition, it worked.

Edited July 24, 20242 yr by arss1
Addition to the above

U sure U can't install it with winntsetup?

Eureka! this is a list of folders I have discovered to be necessary
for wifi functionality:

\Windows\AppReadiness
\Windows\bcastdvr
\Windows\DigitalLocker
\Windows\Logs
\Windows\Offline Web Pages
\Windows\Panther
\Windows\Panther\setuperr.log
\Windows\IdentityCRL
\Windows\LanguageOverlayCache
\Windows\Installer
\Windows\L2Schemas

so, if u want to keep wifi functional, do not brute-force delete
and/or zerobyte them.

well, I do not know exactly what I did, but a concoction of shenanigan's version and memstechtips' standard version led me to adopt the following autounattended.xml. should anyone be interested in pruning and/or optimizing it, to the benefit of os vhd smallness and functionality after an a-priori purge, pls be my guest. as my knowledge of xml is almost inexistent, it is hard to expect any better than this from me, but I am willing to learn, still to the benefit of os smallness and functionality.

autounattend.xml

Edited July 28, 20242 yr by Antonino