How to clean install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware (official release, working October 5th 2021)

Video guide on how to clean install Windows 11 official release version on October 5th 2021, on a computer with an unsupported processor and no TPM enabled.

This method should work for systems using legacy boot, non-secure boot UEFI, or other issues which do not meet the Windows 11 requirements but can install Windows 10.

[WSS_the_OG]

This is terrific, so thanks for taking the time to lay it out. I have an older laptop collecting dust (4000 series Intel) which will make the ideal guinea pig for Windows 11 testing before committing to it on my main systems.

Much appreciated!

[paulpickup]

this is by far the simplest way to do it .and it works seemlessly. you get a usb install version for any pc. mine are a dell i5 3570 and an acer travelmate 5760. both failed the pc health check.it activates via win 10 product key or your m'soft account. you get the updates (at least for the time being). other videos are way too complicated for a novice like me.well explained- many thanks

[navyspook]

Thank you for the information. I have an older PC that will not install Windows 11 and your process is the easiest I've seen so far.

[morcjul]

Still works!! This has been my favorite guide for a clean install on my i7-4790k. Thanks so much!

[ZamilMojumder]

Thank you so much for this video! Very very clear, and easy to follow. I have upgraded three laptops following your steps. Two of them, A Vaio (i5, 10 years old!) & an SP3, did not have the required stuff to upgrade to W11. Two of them (SP3 and an XPS13) was stuck in the dev channel and was due to expire at the end of October. All three were upgraded a couple of days ago, I was able to download and install all available windows update after the upgrade to W11, and all three are running smoothly so far. Touchwood! Great video; I wish you the best in whatever you do.

[hbofficial]

Literally tried every other YouTubers method and only this one worked I have windows 11 on my 5th gen i5 😊

[martinathome]

Thanks - your nice simple process got me a working Win 11 running in VirtualBox. From what I see I don't want to put Win 11 on a real PC for some time.

[aali]

Hey dude thanks for the tip. It is working well on my seven year old PC with an i5 intel chip. I followed all you instructions and everything is working so perfect and the updates is successful. Again, thanks I am happy with windows 11

[sirampavan]

DUDE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS TO ME YOU MADE MY YEAR !!!

[wonderfulworld]

Portability is the programmer"s word for describing this issue. Downward portable would be easy. A function to detect what CPU is being used, and then run the downward compatible functions for that processor. 4th, 5th & 6rth generation Intel CPUs are not supported when they did not care to put in those functions to make their Windows 11 downward portable. <Abort, Retry, Ignore> means the disk read error. Retry and you can get the executable program to read.

[BoomerNewman]

After trying many other methods on youtube that failed, this worked like a treat, cheers bud

[johnbovay]

How to get Microsoft fans to adopt a new Windows OS whose means of filtering web search results could be abused via future system updates while avoiding the widespread resistance Windows 10 initially faced from Windows 7 users:

Tell most of the world's PC users that their hardware is "unsupported" — and then make it easy for them to find installation work-a-rounds.

[rqgmgvu]

Nice one m8! My 4th gen core i5 4200 cpu works buttery smooth ! It worked without any issues dang!! Hats off to you! 🎊

[jersey]

Thanks a lot. It worked perfectly fine after watching and trying tons of videos. I wish I would have seen this video in the beginning so I would not have wasted so much of time and not waited this long. thanks again.

[Hammersch]

I used the media creation tool to make a Win10 USB since i already have win 11 on a disc and that file is Wim instead of ESD and over 4 gig so i used Command promt "DISM" to convert that WIM index "Enterprise" to ESD and it worked like a charm Thank you!

[omkar]

Worked like a charm on my 6 years old Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro!! Thank you for sharing this...

[stdeniro]

Many thanks James. It didn't work for me on a clean install. It kept going back to the start page. However it worked fine on an upgrade. Maybe I did something wrong. But nevertheless it is working fine now. To be honest I only want to try Win 11 to see if it's worth buying a new PC and so far I'm quite impressed with it and no doubt in the future I will buy a new one Once again thank you☺

[CrucialConflict.]

This method still works, took me 20 mins to install Windows 11. Thank you
2/12/2024 Still works. 😎

[salimrajan]

Just to say thank you. Your method worked after trying others. I'm on my 3rd laptop now😁

[ziadlalmamode]

I have downloaded windows 11 iso from microsoft.
No checks error occured while installing via usb on an unsupported machine. I think microsoft removed the check on setup.