Windows 10 Home to Windows 11 Secure Boot

[bitfenix]

Hi

In want to upgrade to Windows 11 Home from Windows 10 Home.

PC Health check says I need Secure Boot enabled and have been in BIOS cant find a enabling option. I have a GIGABYTE motherboard.

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System Information says that Secure Boot State is unsupported.


Thanks David.

 

[Murphy]

Make sure the drive Windows is installed on is formatted as a GPT disk.
Peripherals menu > Enable AMD CPU fTPM.
BIOS menu > Disable CSM.
BIOS menu > Enable secure boot.

Secure boot won't show up if CSM (Compatibility Support Module) is enabled and if you disable CSM while the drive Windows is installed on is MBR you won't be able to boot into Windows.

 

[Glanza]

Update to latest bios, it'll probably turn it on for you automatically.

 

[teenwolf]

Stay on 10

 

[bitfenix]

Update to latest bios, it'll probably turn it on for you automatically.

How do you update BIOS? Is it safe?

Stay on 10

Why isnt Windows 11 faster? I know windows 10 to be supported till October 14, 2025.

 

[teenwolf]

No difference

 

[freddie64]

This any help?

Not sure about the mbr2gpt part, never knew it existed.

Updated to W11 myself ~ 10 days ago, it looks a bit different and agree with teenwolf about no difference in speed.

 

[Mujja]

OP will already be on GPT is using UEFI.

 

[Murphy]

No. CSM is a shim that allows the use of MBR with UEFI.

 

[Mujja]

But would CSM still be enabled by default on recent boards? Doesn't hurt to check though.

We did use CSM back in the day at a previous workplace where the OSD solution only supported MBR, and I'd totally forgotten about it.

 

[Murphy]

It is on my X570 Gigabyte board (after a reset or BIOS update) so i assume they default to that on all their boards.