Upgrading to windows 11 on unsupported hardware

lostsoul70 · Feb 18, 2024

I have a AMD Phantom which is 12 years old and a i5 that is 9 years old that has windows 10 and I put the ISO in the C:\windows11\setup.exe /product server in DOS under administrator and I got a message that said "The system can not find the path specified" so what am I doing wrong?

bobkn · Feb 18, 2024

I don't understand what you've tried.

You may find this useful: Bypass Windows 11 System Requirements Tutorial

I suppose that you meant an AMD Phenom CPU. (Spellcheck strikes again?)

OAT · Feb 18, 2024

lostsoul70 said:
I have a AMD Phantom which is 12 years old and a i5 that is 9 years old that has windows 10 and I put the ISO in the C:\windows11\setup.exe /product server in DOS under administrator and I got a message that said "The system can not find the path specified" so what am I doing wrong?

Right click on the .iso file and mount it, it will open explorer where your installation media is.
Open the command prompt from there.

Please beware:

Windows 11 no longer fooled by this system requirements bypass trick on old unsupported CPUs

There has been an interesting trick, a single command, that allows unsupported CPUs to bypass Windows 11's system requirements check during setup. That has seemingly stopped working on very old chips.

www.neowin.net

TechnoMage2021 · Feb 18, 2024

OK, I'm thoroughly confused! What are you trying to accomplish?
You DO understand that DOS and NTFS (Windows) don't mix. Right?

I can read an NTFS partition in DOS, but only after I run the program "NTFS4DOS".
More information on your part, would be nice. Eh?

OAT · Feb 18, 2024

TechnoMage2021 said:
OK, I'm thoroughly confused! What are you trying to accomplish?
You DO understand that DOS and NTFS (Windows) don't mix. Right?

I can read an NTFS partition in DOS, but only after I run the program "NTFS4DOS".
More information on your part, would be nice. Eh?

The OP means command prompt, and is just running the command line from the c:\ drive instead of the mounted media in an attempt to install 11 on an old PC running 10.