I bought a secondary internal SSD to install Windows 11 to, and when I load up my bootable USB to do so I get issues.
First I tried a 22H2 iso & i was able to select my version and stuff in the installer, but before anything happened it told me my device doesn’t meet the requirements for Windows 11 (very clearly wrong). Then I tried a 23H2 iso, and that just gives me this error immediately after booting up my USB stick:
The only cause I can think of is that I had Windows 10 installed on an expansion card before using this guide (not in use anymore bc it worked poorly) and it might’ve done some wacky stuff to the bios that I don’t know how to fix since I’m just an ape that copy-pasted commands.
It lets me install windows 10 to the ssd, but upgrading to 11 still doesn’t work because “the requirements aren’t met” somehow.
My guess is that the security model Windows 11 is using does not include being installed to removable media. Are their guides on the net saying that this is possible?
If I remember correctly Windows 11 requirement list has Secure boot as a requirement, but only that the system can support it, not that it is on. However, the TPM is a requirement. If your TPM has been provisioned by Linux already, it might be showing availability to Windows, in which case you do not meet the hardware requirements.
It is also that your bootloader currently is grub, which Microsoft doesn’t like to play nice with.
Usually you have to install Windows first, and then install Linux next. OR, and you have a great system for this, just run Windows virtualized in a VM.
Hi, sorry for replying like 3 months late but if the bootloader is the problem, how would I reset that to the one windows likes (and would that cause any sort of issues with my linux installation)?
TPM is the “Trusted Platform Module” or security module on the motherboard. This is what Windows 11 requires to be at 2.0? before it will install. If you are dual booting I believe you want to disable it.
I have Zorin v17.1 and Windows 11 Pro dual booting on my FW16 with no issues. I followed steps in the link below. Installed Zorin first then Windows 11. Only downside is that I have to make a choice of which to load after I turn the laptop on.
Zorin + Windows dual boot steps (should be applicable for other flavors of Linux):
I turned off TPM (in bios settings i toggled “TPM Availability” to Hidden, that seemed like the closest thing) and i got the same message from the win11 iso.
Windows 11 from the factory requires a TPM 2.0 module to install. Change the TPM from hidden to enabled or avalable. You can just disable secure boot and it will not use the secure boot feature. Windows 11 will not install without some registry/config file changes to the installer to ignore the TPM requirement.
Like @2disbetter said, if your Linux install already modified secure boot and set it up for itself, Windows is not smart enough to work with anything but a completely clean TPM.
Usually the cleaner path is to Install Windows 11 first then install whatever Linux flavor you want to use. The only thing Microsoft’s installer knows is to blow away anything in its (boot loader) path or if it doesn’t see a clear way forward it just throws up it’s arms and says “I don’t know what to do, contact your administrator”
This is not true. Windows does not need to own the TPM.
This is not true. The installer will install to any NTFS partition and will offer to create one in any contiguous free space available on the drive. It does not delete any partitions or their contents without affirmative user action.
You are right, I should have clarified that statement. It will only install where you tell it is allowed to go on the drive and it does ask you if something is going to be deleted before installing the operating system files on the drive.
What it will do though is modify the UEFI so that it is first and it is not clear to the end user why their other operating system no longer boots.
You are right, it doesn’t need to own the TPM, earlier builds of Windows would not play nice if the TPM had anything other than the few things it was looking for. It has improved somewhat, though it still is not as seamless as it should be given how long this technology has been around
