Today is my 61st anniversary of turning 19 years old (you’re as old as you feel, right?). One of the things I decided to do for my birthday was to see if I could upgrade my NAS from Windows 11 23H2 on unsupported hardware to 24H2.
Having a recent drive image safely stashed, I proceeded by logging in directly (I usually use RDP, but what I wanted to do doesn’t work through RDP) to my NAS as a member of the Administrators group. I had prepared a USB thumb drive using Rufus 4.7 and this instruction set from Neowin. After cleaning out the obstructive bits from the registry, I launched Setup.exe using Run as administrator.
I elected to download updates later, but it took a while, anyway. Once it started updating files, the process was even slower, but then again, it’s on unsupported hardware, so I wasn’t concerned about the time involved. It went through three or four restarts (I was AFK from time to time), then booted into Windows 11 24H2. I went through the OOBE in the Administrators profile, then rebooted and ran through it again in my Standard user’s profile.
After that, it was “Check for updates”. I got:
KB5043080 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems
KB5054979 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 24H2 for x64
Running Windows ll Pro Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.1742)
Next I ran O&O Shutup10, reverted the changes, rebooted, and ran “Check for updates” again. I got:
KB5055523 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems
Now running Windows ll Pro Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.3775)
I ran O&O Shutup10 again, reverted the changes, and rebooted. Then I uninstalled Edge, deleted Windows.old, rebooted again, ran extended Disk Cleanup, and everything’s fine.
