Getting the Windows 11 look in 10….

throwaway4372 · 1 Sep 2023 at 18:17

Yeah I'm assuming you're booting off the usb - that's what you must do.

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 18:22

Scania said:
Are you trying to update from Windows 10?

If so, I'd suggest you set your BIOS to boot from the USB flash drive (or DVD if you're old school!) and install it clean that way.

throwaway4372 said:
Yeah I'm assuming you're booting off the usb - that's what you must do.

Yes I'm on windows 10, I will see what it's set to in the bios. I will let you know if I get past the fail.

I am using a flash drive but I'm still old skool as I still have discs and a burner lol

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 18:44

I'm not having much luck I get this message from Rufus

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8561/IW3bHU.jpg

Edit: I think I'm getting there

Scania · 1 Sep 2023 at 19:26

I'm assuming you've delved into the BIOS and selected UFEI now...

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 19:27

Thank you everyone. I'm now on Windows 11.

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 19:29

Scania said:
I'm assuming you've delved into the BIOS and selected UFEI now...

I did, it was me just not properly reading lol

ED209 · 1 Sep 2023 at 21:39

I was using Chrome and had no issues

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 21:56

ED209 said:
I was using Chrome and had no issues

That's strange then, I tried it three times but chrome wouldn't have it. I have noticed on my SSD it has windows.old and windows.new I'm guessing I can delete the .old and leave the .new?

throwaway4372 · 1 Sep 2023 at 21:59

I formatted the drive in the installer to avoid that. I think you can bin it with disk cleanup.

wigster · 1 Sep 2023 at 22:04

throwaway4372 said:
I formatted the drive in the installer to avoid that. I think you can bin it with disk cleanup.

It's strange because I thought I had formatted the hard drive in the installer.

wiiija · 1 Sep 2023 at 22:13

wigster said:
That's strange then, I tried it three times but chrome wouldn't have it. I have noticed on my SSD it has windows.old and windows.new I'm guessing I can delete the .old and leave the .new?

Yeh just delete it or use disk cleanup

wigster · 2 Sep 2023 at 09:11

wiiija said:
Yeh just delete it or use disk cleanup

I remember now using disk cleanup for the same reason when i went from Windows 8.1 to 10. Totally forgot about that lol

darael · 2 Sep 2023 at 11:18

Too late now, but you could have used UUP dump to get the ISO, you'd just need to run the script on your PC which would take about an hour to download and create the image.

wigster · 2 Sep 2023 at 12:43

darael said:
Too late now, but you could have used UUP dump to get the ISO, you'd just need to run the script on your PC which would take about an hour to download and create the image.

Yes a little bit too late lol

I tried again to see if I could download it from Rufus i couldn't and also tried using Chrome and Firefox and still couldn't but Edge let me download it. So they must be blocking broswers somehow.

wigster · 2 Sep 2023 at 14:15

The one thing that didn't work with Rufus was to bypass the need of a Microsoft account. Which is a bummer as now my user account is set to the first part art of my email.

ED209 · 2 Sep 2023 at 18:45

wigster said:
The one thing that didn't work with Rufus was to bypass the need of a Microsoft account. Which is a bummer as now my user account is set to the first part art of my email.

Could you not try [email protected] with a random password? This would fail and then give you an option for a local account.

Unsure if rhis still works

wigster · 2 Sep 2023 at 19:24

ED209 said:
Could you not try [email protected] with a random password? This would fail and then give you an option for a local account.

Unsure if rhis still works

No it didn't work for me. As i didn't have much installed i did it again this time adding my name for the local account on Rufus, this time it worked by saying i didn't have a internet connection. I did unplug myself from the Internet to be on the safe side.

darael · 2 Sep 2023 at 22:05

wigster said:
No it didn't work for me. As i didn't have much installed i did it again this time adding my name for the local account on Rufus, this time it worked by saying i didn't have a internet connection. I did unplug myself from the Internet to be on the safe side.

Did you try the command prompt trick? This is where you press Shift + F10 to bring up the command prompt window and typing in OOBE\BYPASSNRO

wigster · 3 Sep 2023 at 09:41

darael said:
Did you try the command prompt trick? This is where you press Shift + F10 to bring up the command prompt window and typing in OOBE\BYPASSNRO

No i didn't try the command prompt i had seen that was another way to bypass it thanks. It would have been driving me crazy seeing a part of my email address all the time :mad: