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I know its a lot to ask Dante82, but could you just upload the image file of your working sata HDD? It would save me a lot of frustrations....lol. Thanks a lot.

@Dante82... I finished copying the files to the HDD as slave. Now started to edit the registry of the slaved HDD by loading the hive but this what I get.

thats a more thorough instruction, thank you.

Yep, HOLES, big ones....

when you say "entire file tree" you mean everything on the HDD right? Then just copy everything extracted from Alien_Extermination.img including hidden files, etc etc. just making sure... will do it today. Thank you Dante82. Your right about the holes in the tutorial... BIG ONES.

How do you copy everything to HDD? just copy and paste? please be more specific... thank you.

Don't I need to make the HDD bootable first?

How did you do the HDD cloning process?

I renamed the extension from .img to .iso, used rufus to make a bootable pendrive using alien_extermination.iso, Rufus made my 8gb pendrive to 4gb fat32 bootable usb... tried to copy all files from my working Xp Hdd but it says usb disk full... almost giving up on this.

It booted off the USB pendrive but I only got as far as the "PLAY TO WIN" splash screen and got the bluescreen error.... I will try replacing all the files inside System32 from my Xp installed HDD... don't know if this will work.

Ok... I'll try to give this a go again... messed up my xp installation when I edited the registry. I loaded the hive on the pendrive (D:\Aliens\Windows\System32\Config\....) I seemed to have edited the registry on the HDD Xp instead... formatted/installed Xp on my sata HDD again, now installing necessary drivers for the mobo I will be using for the game...

I tried following Dante82 instruction on editing the registry... but I can't seem to find the "msahci" on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci" but found "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\pciide" which value is already set to "0"... need more detailed help... actually I have the game already on a arcade cabinet bought in china... the problem is that the crosshair on one machine does not appear and I figured it has something to do with the calibration of the guns on xp since it seems ok on the software calibration. But I can't seem to go to xp gui to access control panel and game controllers....

I downloaded Aliens_Extermination.img and changed the extension to .iso, used rufus to install it to my 8gb pendrive. it booted up to the "PLAY TO WIN" splash screen then got the bluescreen of death.... is it possible to run the image directly from the pendrive? I don't have IDE HDD. If it can be done, please teach me how. Thanks.