Another way to get win 11 23H2 running on any PC supported or not, use a cloned drive. no install needed.

sdowney717 · Mar 2, 2024

Did it today
Intel based old Laptop had been running win10pro and is activated with my MS online account

Made a clone of a win 11 23H2 OS on an AMD desktop PC.

Put cloned drive into laptop, and it booted up win 11 pro and was activated with my online account.

Windows goes thru a reconfig process detecting all the different hardware.

So no need to install 11 at all.

Course the PC with the cloned drive still has to meet bare minimums for ram etc... But it bypasses things like CPU requirements that stop installs.

hsehestedt · Mar 5, 2024

The nice thing is that there are quite a few options for doing this. In fact, to keep them all straight, I wrote myself a little document detailing all the methods to do this. However, as obvious as this one should really be, it's not a method I ever thought of. Thanks for pointing this out. Time to update my document

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sdowney717 · Mar 5, 2024

hsehestedt said:
The nice thing is that there are quite a few options for doing this. In fact, to keep them all straight, I wrote myself a little document detailing all the methods to do this. However, as obvious as this one should really be, it's not a method I ever thought of. Thanks for pointing this out. Time to update my document .

And you then also have all your previously installed updates, apps and files instantly on and working in the other PC with the clone drive.