Does Rufus Still Work ?

Thanks for that......the laptop I am trying to install W11 on is a Toshiba L670-1J8 model, and is I think about FOURTEEN years old, as are all the Toshiba one's I have, it was originally a W7 machine, successfully updated to W10, as they all were......I guess they are probably just too old to run W11, but thought it worth a try.....if anyone can tell me how to disable secure boot it might help, but from what I can see there is NO option to do that on these older machines.....I do have W11 on a fairly new Dell machine, but hate to think that these old Toshiba's are destined for landfill.....oh well, progress I guess !!......

You put 24H2 on that and you’re going to be disappointed. It’ll run like a bag of…

BUT there are a few members here that have worked with PC’s that used to belong to Moses and have done OK, sort of. But I’d suggest 23H2, which actually gets retired in Nov, but members like @Bree may be able to advise.

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A laptop like that, I doubt has UEFI, if it does it’ll be via the BIOS. I’m not that clued in so another member can advise. So your Partition probably needs to be/or is already MBR as does that setting in Rufus (Number 3 in my settings image)

Did you use that tutorial to find the partition scheme?

EDIT: I had a look, no UEFI that I can see.

Mmmhhh......al is probably not lost !!.......my main laptop (the one I am using now) DOES have the facility to turn Secure Boot, on and off.....it's also a Toshiba Satellite but slightly newer than the others.......the plan is to create a W10 ISO, in case things go wrong, and then attempt to install W11 on THIS machine.....fingers crossed !!......

Nope.....still won't recognise the flash drive......just about to give up !!.......