windows XP

[Lays]

Do I need to do something to my BIOS like enabling some sort of legacy boot thing to get a windows XP USB to be recognized?

(Mobo is z97 soc force from Gigabyte)

 

 

I just followed a step by step guide on how to make a bootable USB windows XP drive, but it's not working.

 

 

I get an error when trying to boot from the USB that says "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

 

 

 

The reason I'm asking is there are some older benchmarks that run faster on XP, (superpi, and some older 3dmarks)

[TomvanWijnen]

Are you doing this on a recent computer?

[Lays]

Are you doing this on a recent computer?

 

 

On the system in my signature on a separate partition. 

[Guest]

On the system in my signature on a separate partition. 

 

Only Windows 8 and above work with a UEFI-only BIOS

[Lolzious]

Is the USB stick configured as NFTS or fat32? If you've tried both, maybe use a different USB stick. I've found sometimes certain USB sticks just don't like booting an OS for some reason.

[Blebekblebek]

use rufus to make sure you are making usb bootable from either UEFI or Legacy

 

and since Windows XP support for new chipset is barely exist, use IDE mode for your drive instead AHCI

and the last part, if EFI boot doesn't work, set it to LEGACY mode.

[Lays]

Is the USB stick configured as NFTS or fat32? If you've tried both, maybe use a different USB stick. I've found sometimes certain USB sticks just don't like booting an OS for some reason.

I tried NTFS and Fat32, it's the same USB drive I just installed windows 8.1 with earlier.

 

I tried a different guide to see if that helps, I will be back shortly to see if it worked.

 

Only Windows 8 and above work with a UEFI-only BIOS

 

There are 2 different BIOS modes on my board UEFI & Legacy, and I already have windows 7 installed on a separate partition, so obviously it works somehow

 

I HAVE seen people using XP with my board, so it obviously does work.

[Speedbird]

Do I need to do something to my BIOS like enabling some sort of legacy boot thing to get a windows XP USB to be recognized?

(Mobo is z97 soc force from Gigabyte)

 

 

I just followed a step by step guide on how to make a bootable USB windows XP drive, but it's not working.

 

 

I get an error when trying to boot from the USB that says "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

 

 

 

The reason I'm asking is there are some older benchmarks that run faster on XP, (superpi, and some older 3dmarks)

You have absolutely no reason to install XP on a 2014 chipset.

The reason you cant do this is because your motherboard has UEFI. 32-bit XP does not support it. You may get it to work by enabling Legacy Boot, CSM, or other settings like that, but XP is an old, unuspported and legacy OS. I seriosuly hope that you are not going to use XP as the main operating system.

As for the older benchmarks, I dont really think that they will run faster on XP. Unless somebody said that in 2007, when Vista just came out and most PCs had Core 2 Duos with 2GB of RAM.

Just install Windows 10. That is currently the best Windows OS available. You can install 7 if you want, it is supported until 2020. Or if you want, you can install 8.1, if for some reason you like 8.1 but not 10.

[Lays]

You have absolutely no reason to install XP on a 2014 chipset.

The reason you cant do this is because your motherboard has UEFI. 32-bit XP does not support it. You may get it to work by enabling Legacy Boot, CSM, or other settings like that, but XP is an old, unuspported and legacy OS. I seriosuly hope that you are not going to use XP as the main operating system.

As for the older benchmarks, I dont really think that they will run faster on XP. Unless somebody said that in 2007, when Vista just came out and most PCs had Core 2 Duos with 2GB of RAM.

Just install Windows 10. That is currently the best Windows OS available. You can install 7 if you want, it is supported until 2020. Or if you want, you can install 8.1, if for some reason you like 8.1 but not 10.

 

The benchmarks do run better on XP, every single world record for them on HWBOT has XP running.  I'm not using it as an everyday OS, ONLY for these old legacy benchmarks.

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2784525_dancop_superpi___32m_core_i7_4770k_4min_30sec_765ms

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2505538_chi_kui_lam_superpi___1m_core_i7_3770k_5sec_78ms

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2370862_splave_rom_superpi___1m_core_i7_3770k_5sec_125ms/

[Speedbird]

The benchmarks do run better on XP, every single world record for them on HWBOT has XP running.  I'm not using it as an everyday OS, ONLY for these old legacy benchmarks.

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2784525_dancop_superpi___32m_core_i7_4770k_4min_30sec_765ms

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2505538_chi_kui_lam_superpi___1m_core_i7_3770k_5sec_78ms

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2370862_splave_rom_superpi___1m_core_i7_3770k_5sec_125ms/

Then enable CSM/Legacy Boot and install from a CD, not USB.