Windows 11 Pro: Install & Setup questions

This. Not worth the effort unless you want to keep hacking it.

 

My Lenovo T540p has has tpm1.0 instead f 2.0. That's not good enough for W11P & evil M$.

Correction.

Looks like I'll have to bypass the hardware requirements. Another instance of a M$ money grab.

 

I just looked at my wife's computer. 2012 BIOS, no TPM, second generation Intel CPU. Win11 runs quite well.

That could be a big problem.
Have you tried the Boot Menu in the BIOS?

 

How will the SSD support 5 primary partitions without BootIt? MBR disks are limited to 4 primary partitions. BootIt creates an EMBR disk which can support over 200 primary partitions.

SRP
Win7
Win11
Debian
Data

 

I put a Linux distro on a flash drive using Rufus. Went through all the about 7 different Boot Menu options. No Soap. I'll try again.

 

Just checking. When you open Rufus the default Partition scheme is GPT. Did you change this to MBR? The Target system should then become "BIOS (or UEFI-CSM)"

 

Silly me. I was able to boot from UFD. F12 got me there. It loaded Debian Live perfectly.

 

That's great.

 

I'm going to tweak my W7 install & get it just right then image it.

Thanks Brian I will awaken this topic in a few days to 2 weeks hopefully. Then if you're willing to help I'd appreciate it.

 

zapjb,

I'll be here. I have lots of tutorials, prepared over the years, that will help with the many BootIt procedures. We can take it gradually. No rush.

I know I don't have to remind you but make sure you image both partitions. The SRP contains the booting files for Win7.

 

EaseUs ToDo Advanced Server does it automatically I think.

 

Does the BootIt Collection include BootIt Bare Metal? I'm confused the checkout page for the BootIt Collection does not specify that it includes BIBM.

 

"...The collection includes BootIt Bare Metal (BIBM) for standard BIOS systems and BootIt UEFI (BIU) for UEFI systems..."
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-collection/

 

https://sort.veritas.com/public/doc...vom_winadm_addon_users/NewPartitionHeader.htm

MBR is limited to 4.

BIBM maybe has benefits for so called "power user", but not for regular users like zapjb, me included.
anyhow using several windows versions need special settings, BIBM cannot make such settings futile.

i run several windows as multiboot on MBR and UEFI and there is no worry about dismissed tools like BIBM. i consider such tools (see above) futile for regular users.

 

First thanks Bob D. Didn't see that myself.

@ Brummelchen I used to image, dual boot etc on a frequent basis. Now I image every once in a while with EaseUs Todo Backup Advanced Server 4.5. I think I can do this I just haven't tweaked my T540p enough to image it yet. Been using my e540 forever & ignoring pretty much my T540p.

 

I need a tutorial (easy). W7P64 is already installed. I'd think W11P would be installed next & last to be installed Debian 12. I'd also like a separate data partition that all 3 OS's have full access to. And a tutorial that includes bypassing W11P hardware requirements. Preferably without using BIBM because I don't want to buy it if I need it after the trial period. I have licensed copies of EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server & Aoemi Backerupper though. And I think Haselo is freeware? so I'd be open to that. Thanks Wilders.

 

Get RUFUS 4.x

And as i wrote in another thread, BIBM is not needed, in no way.
other users were able in the past (me included) to use multiboot without such tools.

the only thing i guess could be a repair of the grub loader for debian.

what you cant mix up is BIOS/MBR with UEFI. so if you have w7 installed with BIOS/MBR you need to stick with it for w11. but that does not matter, its possible.

BTW w11 works best on SSD, on HDD it gets significant slower.

BTW forget your current Easeus, acronis and whatever, those wont help you out. you need a decent partition manager to create, move, extend, ideal on boot media (dvd/stick).
i have easeus partition manager free and minitool partition wizard free - i do not remember which one i used to prepare. i also have both as a paid version, older, i used it to copy my os from hdd to ssd (not possible with the free versions).

 

I have AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro for partitioning. It's worked for me before when moving from a smaller to larger SSD.

Any links to step by step tutorials for the whole procedure would also be appreciated.

 

geez aomai for partitioning, then ofc you need luck.
i trialed this longer ago and it failed completely on reboot, it mixed up my hdds and thus refused to fulfil the tasks. for decades i only work on my drives when offline, means from dvd or stick.

from my view aomei is giving away to much paid versions for zero bucks to own the marketplace, in fact its software is awful. i deleted any.
at least easeus made the goal when cloning my hdd to ssd and to make it work again, any other failed, either on the boot partition/information, or make windows work again.

 

I'm running TPM 1.2 on my HP ZBook G2 Mobile Workstation. Windows 11 22H2 is rock-solid on a nearly decade old laptop.

 

My BIOS was updated to Version M71 01.31 2/24/2020. Sucks HP didn't bundle in a TPM 2.0 upgrade with it.

 

Is yours an Intel Broadwell processor? Mine is unsupported under Windows 11 but it can run it.

 

Microsoft will provide security updates for unsupported PCs. People haven't had serious issues being on an updated Windows 11.

 

You may need to go into the BIOS to set it to boot from your USB drive.

 

Broadwell is a 5th generation CPU. I have Win11 on two old computers. One has a 2nd generation CPU and the other has a 4th generation CPU.