Post by budgall on Oct 17, 2021 0:26:59 GMT -5
I now have Windows 11 installed on one of my computers. The computer the install was done on is Windows 11 compatible and has been approved by both the Microsoft PC Health Check Program and the WhyNotWin11 Program. I used two different versions of Windows 11 to do the installations, Version 1 was the final Windows Insider Preview Edition and Version 2 was the actual release to public version released on October 4, 2021. The preview version (Version 1) did not have the strict hardware requirements activated. The released version (Version 2) did have the strict hardware requirements activated.
All installations were done in Virtual Computers . The Virtual Computers were created using Oracle’s Virtual Box 6.1 and VM Ware Workstation 16.2.0. Both programs are free, well documented and fairly easy to use. You can find lots help and tutorials on how to use them on the internet.
Using Oracle’s Virtual Box the Preview Edition (Version 1) installed and activated with no problems. Still using Virtual Box I created another Virtual Computer and attempted to install the released version of Windows 11 (Version 2). The install failed immediately after telling the install process which drive to install Widows 11 on. Error message received said Windows 11 could not be installed on this PC. I was expecting this error because I got the error when I tried to install it back on October 4th. However, today I had a Plan B.
Plan B: Plan B required adding a new key to the registry and then adding 3 values to the new key. The added values were named “BypassTPMCheck”, “BypassRAMCheck” and “BypassSecureBootCheck”. I believe you should be able to figure out why the install failed by looking at the names of the values. After making the registry changes and exiting the registry editor the Windows 11 install program ran to its completion with no problems.
The third installation was done in a VM Ware Workstation 16 Virtual Machine. I had found a fix that was supposed to allow the TPM requirement pass the installation check but it didn’t work for me. I ended up with the same error message as above. Plan B worked so well above so decided to try it again in VM Ware. It worked and Windows 11 installed and activated.
All three installs show Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.258) as the version.
Hopefully in the near future both Oracle and VM Ware will update their programs so that they can pass the necessary hardware specs to the windows install program or that the Microsoft install program can look through the virtual machine and detect the actual hardware.
All installations were done in Virtual Computers . The Virtual Computers were created using Oracle’s Virtual Box 6.1 and VM Ware Workstation 16.2.0. Both programs are free, well documented and fairly easy to use. You can find lots help and tutorials on how to use them on the internet.
Using Oracle’s Virtual Box the Preview Edition (Version 1) installed and activated with no problems. Still using Virtual Box I created another Virtual Computer and attempted to install the released version of Windows 11 (Version 2). The install failed immediately after telling the install process which drive to install Widows 11 on. Error message received said Windows 11 could not be installed on this PC. I was expecting this error because I got the error when I tried to install it back on October 4th. However, today I had a Plan B.
Plan B: Plan B required adding a new key to the registry and then adding 3 values to the new key. The added values were named “BypassTPMCheck”, “BypassRAMCheck” and “BypassSecureBootCheck”. I believe you should be able to figure out why the install failed by looking at the names of the values. After making the registry changes and exiting the registry editor the Windows 11 install program ran to its completion with no problems.
The third installation was done in a VM Ware Workstation 16 Virtual Machine. I had found a fix that was supposed to allow the TPM requirement pass the installation check but it didn’t work for me. I ended up with the same error message as above. Plan B worked so well above so decided to try it again in VM Ware. It worked and Windows 11 installed and activated.
All three installs show Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.258) as the version.
Hopefully in the near future both Oracle and VM Ware will update their programs so that they can pass the necessary hardware specs to the windows install program or that the Microsoft install program can look through the virtual machine and detect the actual hardware.
If you want to Windows 11, a virtual computer is an easy way to do it.
Now its time to play with it and see it can convince me to install it for real.