Hello. Long story short, my father unexpectedly passed several months ago. I have his desktop, and am trying to reinstall windows on it after making a backup of personal files i want to keep.
I created a installation file on a flash drive, as doing the reset from the system settings would not let me do it. Stupidly, i formated all disc while in the installation program as i thought this would be a cakewalk, as I have previously installed windows from a flash drive before.
Here is where the problems arise: the setup progresses to 75% (once 76%) then gives me the error that windows 11 installation failed. No error code.
As the only other thing i have is a Macbook air for creating a new installation media, I am having problems even though i have tried different solutions (Reformating to exfat with GUID/master, tried splitting the 7,8gb install file in the ISO file so there are 2 files under 4GB, trying to install on different HDD/SSD with all methods), all different solutions leads to the same point of failure: Installation stops at 75/76% with the error that the windows11 installation failed. Both TPM and secure boot is enabled in BIOS. I am reluctant to reset the bios settings as my father OC´d his desktop and i would like to keep it that way, as I myself am not as competent concerning OC as he was.
I will admit that i have not researched good enough in my preparations for this (and yes, I will admit that formating the original windows install before installing the new OS is not a smart move) and as i understand it: FAT32 does not support files over 4GB, which appears to be the main root of the problem here. I have read that RUFUS is common as it defaults it to NTFS instead of FAT32. Would that be the solution to my problem, creating the media installation file using RUFUS? In that case my problem is that the only computer i have access to is a MAC which does not support RUFUS.
EDIT: The flash drive is a PNY 32GB USB 3.1
Help would be appriciated!
GPU: 5060 Ti 16GB
CPU: i5 13600KF
RAM: 32GB DDR4
Motherboard: MSI Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4.
I created a installation file on a flash drive, as doing the reset from the system settings would not let me do it. Stupidly, i formated all disc while in the installation program as i thought this would be a cakewalk, as I have previously installed windows from a flash drive before.
Here is where the problems arise: the setup progresses to 75% (once 76%) then gives me the error that windows 11 installation failed. No error code.
As the only other thing i have is a Macbook air for creating a new installation media, I am having problems even though i have tried different solutions (Reformating to exfat with GUID/master, tried splitting the 7,8gb install file in the ISO file so there are 2 files under 4GB, trying to install on different HDD/SSD with all methods), all different solutions leads to the same point of failure: Installation stops at 75/76% with the error that the windows11 installation failed. Both TPM and secure boot is enabled in BIOS. I am reluctant to reset the bios settings as my father OC´d his desktop and i would like to keep it that way, as I myself am not as competent concerning OC as he was.
I will admit that i have not researched good enough in my preparations for this (and yes, I will admit that formating the original windows install before installing the new OS is not a smart move) and as i understand it: FAT32 does not support files over 4GB, which appears to be the main root of the problem here. I have read that RUFUS is common as it defaults it to NTFS instead of FAT32. Would that be the solution to my problem, creating the media installation file using RUFUS? In that case my problem is that the only computer i have access to is a MAC which does not support RUFUS.
EDIT: The flash drive is a PNY 32GB USB 3.1
Help would be appriciated!
GPU: 5060 Ti 16GB
CPU: i5 13600KF
RAM: 32GB DDR4
Motherboard: MSI Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4.
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 PRO
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11i5 13600KF32GB DDR45060 Ti 16GB
- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- i5 13600KF
- Motherboard
- MSI Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4.
- Memory
- 32GB DDR4
- Graphics Card(s)
- 5060 Ti 16GB
