Download Windows Xp Sp2 64 Bit Iso Bootable With Key

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SoI need to boot to windows to change it to normal or to change something with files (via Linux) well, I am on my own with file change and copys from other machines boot stuff is pretty much same and with booting to Windows.

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Cannot dual boot to Linux, because the Windows boot manager redirects to Ubuntu. I could change it when I can boot 1 time to windows (maybe an ISO will work, downloading it for USB).

It was my fault, I can still somehow unistall Linux (if that can work), because I haven't have time to do something yet. (My Linux delete theory works with: machine will boot to windows boot manager, it will TRY to redirect to Linux, but wait, because there is no Linux, so otherwise it will redirect to windows, where I can change files.)

This guide was accualy made by Amir, but i had my situations so some shoutouts! (i didn't use the commands, since i had a gui on booted up windows) I would mark Amir's one as accepted, because i think lots of others will find him's more useful.

I am guessing that you can log into Ubuntu, so grub must be working fine. Windows won't load, so there must be something wrong with your Windows bootloader. You need to fix it to regain access to Windows.

My goal is so simple, the title says it all, but every way I've tried, I've failed. I've read instructions on various sites (besides here) and they all seem to be missing something... this is what I have:

Though I can easily create a bootable Windows 10 USB with Rufus, my goal is more educational: I want to understand what is going on, and what is the source of my failure, and if possible, to make it work.

This is confusing the heck out of me. I know that I'd save myself the trouble if I just stayed with Rufus, but this is not about going simple, but about understanding what is going on. I know a few GUI tools on Linux might solve the problem, but, again, my hope is to do it using the old Unix terminal if possible. if it's not possible, then I'd like to know why.

What way too many people fail to understand, because Linux ISOs are applying this method, but this is essentially a MAJOR HACK CALLED 'ISOHYBRID', is that, in most cases, you cannot simply take an ISO image and copy it byte for byte to a USB drive, and expect that to boot.

That is because the ISO format and the underlying file systems it uses (ISO9660 or UDF) are designed for optical boot, which is a completely different beast from regular HDD or USB boot. For one thing optical media, and therefore (regular) ISO images, don't have a partition table, which is (usually) essential for HDD or USB boot, and they also (usually) don't have a Master Boot record, a.k.a. MBR, which is essential for BIOS boot.

Now, the above only works when the secondary bootloaders (i.e. the ones that comes from Windows and which Rufus doesn't modify) are designed to support both optical and regular boot, which typically mean they need to handle both UDF or ISO9660 and FAT32 or NTFS file systems, as well as the other differences that present themselves when booting from disk vs from optical. But Microsoft did design its bootloader precisely for that, which is the smart thing to do, because, if your target system is UEFI, it means you (usually, as long as the 4 GB max filesize issue of FAT32 doesn't rear its ugly head) don't need a utility to convert an ISO to a bootable USB, but you can just format that USB to FAT32 and copy the ISO files onto it (file copy, not byte copy), and you have a bootable media.

And now that we have gone through all of the above, I can get into a rant and explain why I believe that the Linux distro maintainers, who usually are smarter than that, are actually doing some disservice to their users, even as they are trying to help them:

Almost all recent Linux distros use a MAJOR HACK called "IsoHybrid", where someone managed to figure out a way to make an ISO9660 optical image masquerade as a regular disk image, with a partition table, an MBR and everything... In other words, most Linux ISOs you find these days are abusing the ISO9660 file system to make it look like something it was never designed to look like: a dual disk and optical image.

Obviously, the goal is to create an ISO that can also be used with the dd command, even as an ISO should never be able to work that way. And I agree that, in theory, this sounds awesome, because being able to use a single image for completely different uses should be great for users, but in practice, this leads to issues that are often overlooked:

As far as I know, Microsoft have no plans to switch to the "hack" that is ISOHybrid for their Windows ISOs, which means that you're unlikely to ever be able to use dd to create a bootable USB media from it, and therefore, if you want to create Windows bootable media from an ISO you either:

Used the insights here as motivation to find a way to build a Windows Server 2019 bootable USB drive from Mac OS. The catch is that you need a GPT formatted disk as FAT32 and there are limitations around 4GB max filesize that you need to work around using wimlib-imagex extension. I originally tried using dd utility - but quickly realized that the disk format could not be used for WinOS boot.

I was desperate, I googled for a fix and tried resetting rebooting, PRAM, SMC, and using Winclone software to make EFI bootable. However, it simply stays on the page after pressing" make EFI bootable", with no prompt, and owners remain disabled, its not working.

Next, I read online that I could possible fix this by booting windows from a USB and fixing some boot files. I tried have downloading a copy of windows and installed it on usb from these instructions:

My recommendation is to let you backup/copying finish, remove the current installation of Windows, re-install it, and re-install your application software. It is unfortunately, tedious, but safer in the long run. If your Winclone backup is from a working Windows installation, you may to consider a test restore as another option.

From past experiences, is better if possible, to install them in separated drives, as windows updates usually breaks boot making solus disappear from boot options.

I recommend to use a virtual machine like virtualbox to avoid possible problems at boot.

The help center have more info that I know of about multibooting solus.

-rescue#multi-booting

@murbert I did everything except touching the Windows EFI partition or change its flag to msftdata, will it cause any issues in the future? also I solved the dual-boot loading following these steps carefully: and everythIing is functioning now with no issues

My way allows for an EFI partition per installed OS and prevents the second OS installing to the Winbdows boot partition, which is too small. Your way seems to be transferring the windows boot to the Solus boot. I would expect Windows to do bad things to the Linux stuff. Maybe not. Let us know if it does.

As an addendum to this thread, as an experiment, the method I had complete success with installing Solus next to Windows was doing it Window's way: format and size, shrink, and make the partion in Windows dskmgmt (disk management), then go Live and bring the distro to the windows-made (as opposed to gparted-made) partition. Worked well.

Now that your system is bootable, I recommend that you use Yast bootloader. When in Yast bootloader, change something. The easiest is to change the timeout by 1 second. Then Yast should reinstall grub in a more permanent way.

In another thread, I described helping a senior citizen get a new laptop. He gave me his old pc with Windows 10 installed. I tried installing Tumbleweed for a dual boot, as I have often done before, but failed after many tries.

I narrowed the problem down to secure boot issues. Disabling secure boot allowed me to install a bootable Tumbleweed. However, I have to enter bios to get TW booted. The grub menu does not come up automatically, as I would expect. Among the boot option is both opensuse-secure boot and opensuse without the secure boot label. I use this second one to get TW to boot.

I have seen the reference you mentioned - maybe it actually answers my question but not in so many words. Assuming what I want is possible, please can you confirm (or deny) that the following approach would work?:

Answer is because if I use the W10 media creation tool, I would be reinstalling W10 onto the target and then I would have obliterated the HA install, which I might have done a load of work on to set up.

What I want is to set up HA as if it was a Linux install in a default bootable second partition, and start playing with it, but retain the ability to boot that machine into Windows if (for whatever reason) I want to do that - without having to reinstall anything, swap the SSD or any such faffing about.

HA OS is not a typical Linux distribution, it does not come with an installer, you have to flash it to your HDD/SSD/SD. Maybe what you want is easier installing Debian on the second partition, and run a Supervised install.

I think this will be a tricky install, but it could be possible to flash the installation to the drive and then before the restart, where the install process would expand the primary partition, you might be able to break the boot and install Windows with enough left space for HA to expand into when it finally is allowed to boot.

Personally I think I would install an extra physical drive in the machine and just run HA on one drive and Windows on another.

The BIOS can usually set the boot drive on the fly and then there is no need for GRUB.

Ha only really need 32Gb, so the smallest and cheapest drive you can find would normally be fine.

Windows 10 use BIOS embedded keys to make the first online registration.

Once your hardware has been registered once, then it will always be registered.

Replacing motherboard might cause issues, but otherwise it will just be a reinstall and state that you already have a key registered during the installation.

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