I bought a mini pc that came with Windows 11 and I liked it.
I have successfully installed Windows 11 onto my laptop and my home media server using Rufus.
Now I am on my main home personal pc. It’s an 8 year old desktop that I am trying to install Windows 11 on to with Rufus and I am struggling.
My plan was to remove all the hard drives from my computer and only have a new unformatted 2tb ssd installed, and the rufus memory stick. I was thinking I can do a clean install this way plus if something goes wrong I can just remove the w11 ssd and reinstall the w10 ssd and run windows 10 again like nothing happened.
But I keep getting this error message from Rufus. I think I am booting into UEFI mode but apparently I don’t know what the hell I am doing so here I am humbling myself in front of the world asking for help.
I left the dvd plugged in but with no disk inside.
I am attaching some pictures.
my pc health.
Rufus message
My Bios main page
About my pc
I blacked out my device id and product id out of sheer paranoia
Can anybody tell me what am I missing? What am I doing wrong? Do you need more info?
Thanks in advance



I have successfully installed Windows 11 onto my laptop and my home media server using Rufus.
Now I am on my main home personal pc. It’s an 8 year old desktop that I am trying to install Windows 11 on to with Rufus and I am struggling.
My plan was to remove all the hard drives from my computer and only have a new unformatted 2tb ssd installed, and the rufus memory stick. I was thinking I can do a clean install this way plus if something goes wrong I can just remove the w11 ssd and reinstall the w10 ssd and run windows 10 again like nothing happened.
But I keep getting this error message from Rufus. I think I am booting into UEFI mode but apparently I don’t know what the hell I am doing so here I am humbling myself in front of the world asking for help.
I left the dvd plugged in but with no disk inside.
I am attaching some pictures.
my pc health.
Rufus message
My Bios main page
About my pc
I blacked out my device id and product id out of sheer paranoia
Can anybody tell me what am I missing? What am I doing wrong? Do you need more info?
Thanks in advance




My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro 23H2
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Aspire TC-605
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.30 GHz
- Memory
- 24gb