All and all the oldest I can run here is Vista SP1 (maybe RTM too idk), and surprisingly Windows 1.0 to 3.1 over FreeDOS on a USB stick. I just wanted to see if I could make any variant of XP boot. Heck, I had to patch the drivers for the integrated graphics to even get graphics support in Windows 7 and 8.1. It doesn't even have a driverset for anything older than Windows 10, besides generic drivers provided for wifi and usb 3.0 by intel for 7 and 8.1. And it dawned on me it wouldn't be able to find my SATA drivers anyway and HP has removed any way from accessing advanced bios settings in my laptop so I wouldn't be able to use IDE emulation mode anyway, and my laptop is too new anyway. Once it attempts to search for drivers it blue screens because it says I have no ACPI on my bios, and after I tried skipping that it bluescreened while searching for drivers again, but this time just a regular blue screen, not really anything worthwhile. But it reached as far as I've been able to progress with other Windows XP installation images on this computer. rufus wouldn't make the usb bootable, so yeah after trying out other things my laptop can boot into MBR stuff using CSM, I just couldn't notice it because the only thing I tried to boot with an MBR partition scheme was XP install usbs that failed by rufus anyway.). I used another software to write the iso into a usb and well, it booted (under CSM of course, and as MBR.
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