Hey y’all, apologies if this is obvious to literally everyone here but me, but my new laptop will not install windows. It will get all the way to the installation page, reach ~75%, and go to the “windows installation has failed” page. This has happened every time i’ve tried to install, absolutely no deviation. Environment shown below
Device: Framework Laptop 16
Specs: Ryzen 7 7840HS, 16 gb ram, 1 tb each main, secondary, and expansion card
OS: Windows 11 Home
Installer: Windows Media Creation Tool
Flash Drive Space: 32 gb
All help welcome, please advise. Counting on y’all, tysm
I’d try to simplify the hardware path first. Install with only the internal target SSD present if you can, no expansion card/second drive, and recreate the USB from scratch on a different stick or with Rufus. When you get to disk selection, delete the old partitions on the target drive and let Windows create them again. If it still fails around the same percent every time, open Shift+F10 in the installer and use Notepad to inspect X:\Windows\Panther\setuperr.log and setupact.log. The exact error there usually says whether it is storage driver, bad install media, or a partition issue.
Flash drive? Like a USB attached drive?
I thought windows will not install to a flash drive, unless you preform tricks. Forgive me if I’m out of date or otherwise quite wrong. It’s been, many years, since I’ve seriously played with windows or actually needed to keep up with how it behaves now.
I am astounded. Just doing the first part worked - took out the secondary ssd and expansion card and it worked. no rufus or new flash drive needed. Brother, if I could shake your hand right now I would. Cheers