Question Clean installed Windows 11 and now my m. Question Is This A Bug? Windows Says My Computer Restarted Without Cleanly Shutting Down First. Question BCD automatically deleted (hoping yes :) ) during clean install Windows 11? Question Windows 11 can never shut down on its own. Question Windows 11 acts a bit glitchy on new system Any body else had the desktop icons temporarily unselect able with an up to date Windows 11? Question 'Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of the installation' when installing Windows 11 ? I forget the details but it was a pretty minor fix. That was a Windows 10 install with a Windows 10 key. I had to use some MS virtual assistant to sort out my Windows 10 activation issue. But you'd probably hit the same issues with Windows 10. There may be unrelated activation issues that can be sorted out. I've done this tons of times with 7/8 keys for Windows 10 installs.

In fact I think you can activate using a 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 product key. Just remember to choose the right version (home/pro or whatever MS calls them now). The first two articles (one from MS) say you can install Windows 11 with a Windows 10 key and activate. I wouldn't be surprised if you got everything done in an hour or less. It took me about fifteen minutes to go from booting into my USB installer to having a complete Windows 10 install and logged into my user account on my i5-11400 with a Samsung 980 SSD.

This really won't take very long to do everything. If your Alder Lake system is using an NVMe SSD and you have a good flash drive for this. Now return to the folder where your Windows 11 ISO file is, right-click it and select mount. No, you'll still have to clean install Windows 11 after the upgrade install. Create a second partition but instead format it as File system NTFS.

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