Download latest windows 10 image 2022 22H2
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
Use Rufus to burn image to USB drive.
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This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows. For more information, visit windows 11 requirements
Go to BIOS and enable:
TPM Device and TPM State – any setting with TPM enable it.
Also Windows 11 MUST run with UEFI, and is not compatible with BIOS or Legacy Compatibility Mode.
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You cannot install on external USB drive, so you have to insert the storage media into sata interface install and then boot of usb.
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BIOS vs UEFI windows install MBR vs GPT
Firmware (first piece of software run by a computer) : UEFI / BIOS
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) – can acces 16bit mode and 1MB of RAM
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) or Unified EFI (UEFI) – native 64 bit mode
UEFI has a CSM(Compatibility Support Module)/legacy BIOS mode, which enables an EFI to boot BIOS-mode OS-es.
ESP = Efi system partition
Disk partition table (stored on the first bytes of the storage device – hdd,stick,etc) :
Master Boot Record (MBR) – can only have 4 primary partitions, and hdd size of max 2.2TB
GUID Partition Table (GPT) – supports hard disks bigger then 2.2TB, 128 partitions etc
note : some storege devices are delivered from factory not initialized = without a partition table and your os will not see the storage device until you initialize it.
The bios will only boot either from a hdd that has a partition table of MBR with Legacy mode (or CSM/legacy BIOS mode on an EFI-based computer) or GPT with UEFI.
EFI – can only boot 64 bit versions of Windows and only with GPT partition table
BIOS or Legacy mode – 32/64 bit versions of WINDOWS with MBR
Filesystems : a set of data structures that facilitate naming files, locating them on a disk, and so on- that partitions are formatted with: NTFS, FAT32, FAT, ext2 (linux) etc
When you arrive at partitioning – you will need a GPT partition style.
You can use AOMEI Partition Assistant: http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html – to convert a MBR partition style to GPT without losing any data. It only takes around 30seconds-1 minute for the operation to take place.
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To open CMD during install press SHFIT + F10.
If you get a storage error that disk is not GPT go to cmd
– type diskpart
– list disk
– select disk 1
– clean
– convert gpt
Note: this will erase everything on your storage device so backup first.
Windows user – microsoft account or local account
During setup you will be asked to connect to the internet – either you have an ethernet cable pluged in or you will be asked to connect to a wifi network.
If you connect you will only be able to continue setup by using a microsoft account.
If you do not want to use a microsoft account and just use a local account disconnect from the internet and press back.
If you connected to a wifi network press SHIFT + F10 to open cmd and disconnect from wifi with: netsh wlan disconnect
Add new local user
net user myuser mypassword /add
net localgroup administrators myuser /add
Legacy windows 32 bit
In case you need to run some old app that only runs on 32bits and you want to installa a 32bit version you might run into this error:
Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
- If your computer came with windows 7/8 64 bit set on a GPT partition with UEFI bios mode, and you want to install a windows 7 32bit you will have to set bios mode to CMS/Bios/compatibility mode and change the partition table from GPT to MBR, either by deleting all partitionsor by using a conversion utility.
- or you can install windows 7 64 bits without any further changes.