Install Win 11 on non-conforming hardware

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I have done this on two laptops and a desktop and so far they are all working as expected.

https://scottiestech.info/2023/10/03/how-to-install-windows-11-on-any-computer/

 

YMMV.

Scotty posts some really interesting stuff.

 

 

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Just like to know if they still update like normal?

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I have tried to install Windows 11 on a desktop PC with Windows 10 Home 22H2 64-bit following the procedure in the link to scottiestech.info without success.
Some keypoints worth mentioning IMHO:
– the system BIOS has to support UEFI / Secure Boot. This because Windows 11 requires UEFI / Secure Boot
– the Windows 10 disk must be a GPT disk, not MBR. A GPT disk needs UEFI to be able to boot from.
– the Windows 10 disk must have a system reserved partition of 450 – 500 MB. Win11 will install nearly completely, but in the end will fail with a ox8007000x … error if this partition has a smaller size.
– the default setting for the boot type in Rufus which is used to prepare the tweaked Win11 install medium is UEFI. The pitfall here is that the USB stick you have prepared with Rufus will only boot on a UEFI system. No problem however, you can mount the USB stick and run setup.exe from there for an upgrade install to Win11 with option to keep personal files and apps or not. If you want a clean install you need a bootable USB stick. OK, you can tell Rufus to use the ‘old’ BIOS boot mode while preparing the tweaked Win11 install medium – it will boot on a BIOS-only (non UEFI capable) system, it will install Win11, but Windows 11 will not start because no UEFI / Secure Boot.

My Win10 system has no UEFI / Secure Boot option in the BIOS settings and the Win10 system disk I tried to upgrade to Win11 using the scottiestech procedure is MBR and not GPT. Converting MBR to GPT without data loss is an exercise on itself, but is of no use here because GPT requires UEFI to be able to boot from.
Guess the result after several retries… Still on Windows 10 – no problem, I wanted some kind of a Win11 test system. Learned a lot. Will have to look around for compatible hardware.

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See if this is useful.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/install-windows-11-on-unsupported-hardware-how-do-i-count-the-ways/

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Thanks for the link. I’ll read through, but give-up with the current hardware.
I remember to have seen a VM solution from Oracle and a free ‘for test only’ early Windows11 virtual machine. Maybe that one will update to the current version 22H2? I can run the VM on my more capable laptop. We’ll see…

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