For those wondering, you dont need to muck about with regedits to get win11 to install from fresh. Just follow these easy steps!
(You will be wiping the current HDD, so just be aware).
I'll make a youtube video guide for this later when official release of win11 is out to prove it works on old computers just fine
Also, if you wipe data from the wrong drive, it's your fault. Please use your discretion with the commands below. I dont take responsibility if you lose 20 years of photos because you selected the wrong drive.
Code:
1) Go to UUPdump.net to generate iso, and run the tool
2) Use Rufus portable to write the iso to a USB stick. Rufus should be smart enough to create a UEFI boot partition on the flash drive automatically
3) On the machine to receive win11, disable secureboot and forget secureboot keys if neccessary
4) Boot from the USB stick's UEFI partition, and you will be greeted by the windows 11 installer
5) Follow next, next, etc. until you get to the screen: "You cant install windows 11 on this machine"
6) Haha, windows is lying to you
7) Shift+F10 to launch cmd. Run the code in the cmd window without the quotation marks
8) Run "Diskpart" to start the disk partitioning tool
9) "List Disk" will list the logical volumes of the machine. You will see the interal hard drive and the USB drive. The hard drive is normally Disk 0, and the commands below will assume that it is Disk 0. Yours may be different, so use your brain
10) "Select Disk 0" This will select the hard drive you are installing windows onto (use your brain if you have multiple hard drives, or if drive 0 is not the one you want to boot from. This is the last warning I will give)
11) "Clean" This will completely wipe the drive. This is not reversable. Very last warning.
12) "Convert gpt" this will attempt to convert the partition map to GPT if it is MBR, otherwise it will just say that it is already GPT
13) "Create Part efi size=512"
14) "Format fs=fat32 quick"
15) "Assign letter q"
16) "Create par pri"
17) "For fs=ntfs quick"
18) "Assign letter r"
19)"List vol"
20) "exit"
From the "list vol" command above, all of the volumes will be listed. Please make a note of what is where. The target windows partition we assigned to "R" and the boot efi we assigned to "Q". The flash drive itself is another letter, and I will assume for the purposes of the following segment that it is "D" or "X". We will try the commands below with "X", but if yours is different, use the correct letters in the commands.
Now the drive is ready to accept windows 11. Next we use the microsoft deployment tool to install windows
Code:
Run the code in the cmd window without the quotation marks
"DISM /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:X:\sources\install.wim" This will list all of the index versions of windows 11 on the flash drive, as you selected when you created the ISO using the UUP tool in the very first step. I will assume Index 1 is the version you want to install (in my case win11 pro)
"DISM /apply-image /imagefile:X:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:R:\"
Finally, you need to create the boot sector for the hard drive
Code:
bcdboot R:\Windows /s Q: /f ALL
Close the cmd window, and exit the installer. Haha, windows 11 is now installed. The GUI installer was lying to you.
Windows 11 is now ready to boot
