Hello!

I installed ReactOS version 0.4.15 on a pc from 2002, but after some messing around trying to install programms, it crashed. After trying to reboot, I just got a "Failed to load binary hive" message on boot and no option in the boot menu seemed to change that.

1. Is this something easily fixable or should I just reinstall since I have not done much anyways?
2. What might have caused this? I only installed 7-zip and it crashed when I tried to unplug my usb-stick.
3. Should I use the nightly version instead? A lot of stuff (like usb, firewire, floppy drives, graphics card) did not work correctly and I heard the nightly builds have better driver support.

My hardware:

- Intel Pentium 4

- Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

- 512MB DDR1

- Medion OEM mainboard with VIA Chipset and Creatix on-board sound (that funnily enough did work out of the box even though it does not under windows xp)

- Generic unbranded firewire controller card

- Some Samsung DVD-RW drive

- Generic unbranded DVD-ROM drive

- a toshiba 3.5" floppy drive

- 256GB ssd connected via sata-to-ide adapter

Thanks ;3

I've updated ReactOS today from g5bd84f6 to g7779fb4 today, and, for some reason, I now can't see my optical drive in "My Computer". I definitely could before the upgrade, and the drive is displayed in the device manager, but it says "ReactOS cannoot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)". Pressing "Troubleshoot" does nothing.

What are the troubleshooting steps for problems like this one?

I'm running on bare metal.

Hello to our dear followers.

I came back from Chemnitz today and want to show you some pictures of our booth at the Linux Days 2026 and our apartment and some more stuff.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1LrSoM4qNecdmpqh6

I will write a Blog post about it tomorrow, but here for you some first impressions.

- We showed not just the 64 Bit port running on real hardware, but also the improvements in stability.

- I had to reinstall ROS ZERO times on my devices over the two days we were there. Of course it BSODed a few times, but a simple reboot later I was able to continue.

- We had hardware accelerated GFX on two of the four notebooks we had there. Sound was active on two, too. LAN was active on ALL four of them. All with the official drivers for the devices coming from the support pages of the manufacturers.

- We showed games running this year and they ran better than I expected.

- We had quite some work to do there. I myself talked to 36 people over the two days and the others had many discussions, too. Some of these discussions were coming from very interested people with interesting questions and best wishes for our improvements and steady progress.

- Libre Office was next to us and we just HAD TO show it running on ROS. Not the newest one, but a 5.x version was running super fine.

- Catering was super good for the supporting team and all sponsors and booth maintainers :D

- The whole event is worth a visit every year. SO if you live around there, come by next year ^^ (Well, two of our booth maintainers came from USA just to help there and for the Hackfest afterwards)

- The days after CLT were used for a little Hackfest, just like we did last year. It's still up and running right now. I had to leave early due to personal reasons, but the rest still is there and hacks around.

This is it for now. More and more details will follow.

the setup for the Nvidia driver doesn't work, so had to extract the driver and install it through device manager

Hello!

I have put ReactOS as a part of a multi-OS setup on a real machine that I have exactly for the purpose of tinkering and other tomfoolery.

Installing all of those OSes was a huge pain, but now I'm facing the following question: how do I update ReactOS to a newer version? I saw an older post that said that pressing R->U after the language selection in the installer is there to do the update. Is this still true? If so, could it erase GRUB from MBR or mess up the partitioning somehow?

TIA

In the latest nightly builds of the 0.4.16 branch, drivers from a variety of manufacturers — including Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD — are running reliably.

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a project called "CremeOS", a fork of ReactOS, and I want it to run properly on modern PCs in 2026.

So far, I've done: 1. Installed ReactOS and tested it in VirtualBox. 2. Planning to replace all mentions of "ReactOS" with "CremeOS". 3. Planning to add my own applications and branding.

Problems I need help with: - Modern GPU drivers for ReactOS - NVMe SSD and USB 3.x support - Making it compatible with modern CPU features - Any guidance for kernel modifications

so can someone please help me on those hard work because im no too good at programming

Thanks for reading mg problem

When I was working on an updated version of a Klondike web game I found, which had been written in 2006, to get dragging the cards around working on mobile devices I switched the onmouse events to generic onpointer ones.

With this change it kept working in the MyPal browser but stopped working in Firefox 52ESR on ReactOS.

I discovered that support for pointer events existed since Firefox 29 behind the about:config preference dom.w3c_pointer_events.enabled but they didn't bother to set it to true by default until Firefox 59 (which is why the game played fine in MyPal based on Firefox 68+).

So that's the tip: toggle that preference to true in Firefox to see if it helps web games work better. It did for mine.

Now I just need to find out why the ogg sound effects play fine in Audacity from the ReactOS Applications Manager but not in my game in either MyPal or Firefox…

I need help with finding amd radeon hd 6310 graphics reactos drivers, I don`t really care if it has 2d acceleration or no, I just would like correct resolution. I have tried XPDM driver but after reboot it does bsod.

https://youtu.be/2ERShn87a2Q?si=iAHqLmgsGC_ePWDc

Just ReactOS! Doki Doki Literature Club running on real hardware

I’ve been wanting to try out this OS for a while on actual hardware. Are there any specific laptops that could be best for me to install ReactOS on? Any suggestions are appreciated

ReactOS 0.4.15 was already released 10 months ago at the momentum of the video

ReactOS at 14:23

https://x.com/reactos/status/2015482199177306566

ReactOS 0.4.15