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So ... is there a way to report it to Microsoft and will it get fixed?


XP support ended years ago.


What is the Win 10 bootmgr code for XP loading counted as?


Lots of bootloaders (I would say most I have used) allow chainloading another bootloader. That is what is going on here. Pointing bootmgr at another partition and saying "boot that".


Backwards compatibility!


Based on what the problem description here is (failing to clear some bits in a register), patching it yourself doesn't seem too difficult. Probably less than two dozen bytes to change.




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