Solved Windows 11 strange behavior

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

Lance1 said:
Access the USB from Explorer and run the setup.

ok will do, ive never done it that way before

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

Ok heres a screenshot..I cant do it that way either. No matter how i do it i keep getting this error.

Lance1 · Dec 23, 2022

I have always done my upgrades from within Windows and have never come across that error. All right... Try it the way that you usually do. On bootup. Let us know if it works out! I'm going to look into that error.

Lance1 · Dec 23, 2022

OK... I finished my Rufus USB and ran setup from within Windows and "Did Not" get that error.

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

Lance1 said:
OK... I finished my Rufus USB and ran setup from within Windows and "Did Not" get that error.

i went to boot manager and can upgrade however it wont give me the option to save files etc it says its unavailable, so the only thing i can do is a full clean install which I DONT want to do.

glasskuter · Dec 23, 2022

You are trying to use the wrong setup file. You do NOT open sources but run setup.exe from root of installation.

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

glasskuter said:
You are trying to use the wrong setup file. You do NOT open sources but run setup.exe from root of installation.

ok which is..?

glasskuter · Dec 23, 2022

This one

Lance1 · Dec 23, 2022

glasskuter said:
You are trying to use the wrong setup file. You do NOT open sources but run setup.exe from root of installation.

I completely missed that... Sorry!

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

Lance1 said:
I completely missed that... Sorry!

Heres a pic of the drive with the rufus made USB bootable image. I downloaded and used the recent rufus from their site and this is what it looks like. I left it use all the default settings(GPT, UEFI). As you can see I dont have the setup.exe in the main folder. Only in the sources folder.

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

imanlien2020 said:
Heres a pic of the drive with the rufus made USB bootable image. I downloaded and used the recent rufus from their site and this is what it looks like. I left it use all the default settings(GPT, UEFI). As you can see I dont have the setup.exe in the main folder. Only in the sources folder.
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Something wrong with one you made. Just use (Download) Media Creation tool make a USB drive

Download Windows 11

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

jds63 said:
Something wrong with one you made. Just use (Download) Media Creation tool make a USB drive

Download Windows 11

ok but it downloads and installs its own windows 11 file on my usb. But what version of windows and do i get to pick the version? does it update to the latest version after the one i want to be on?
Edit: Ok I made a usb with the Media Creation tool for windows 11. Then I just opened the pen drive folder and clicked setup.exe..so far so good. Im just afraid its gonna erase my personal files apps etc

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

imanlien2020 said:
ok but it downloads and installs its own windows 11 file on my usb. But what version of windows and do i get to pick the version? does it update to the latest version after the one i want to be on?

You select second option on page i linked download media creation tool not directly to USB to download folder on PC run exe file. Pic recommended Windows version. Site have 22h2

glasskuter · Dec 23, 2022

I've made many bootable drives using the media creation tool and I've downloaded isos and used Rufus to make bootable drives. Every single one using both methods has had a setup.exe at root of drive.

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

glasskuter said:
I've made many bootable drives using the media creation tool and I've downloaded isos and used Rufus to make bootable drives. Every single one using both methods has had a setup.exe at root of drive.

I know too, don't get how his is missing.

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

next step select USB

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

well i c

jds63 said:
You select second option on page i linked download media creation tool not directly to USB to download folder on PC run exe file. Pic recommended Windows version. Site have 22h2

reated the usb and ran the setup.exe. worked fine but afraid to install. Because there are about 10 different ways being explained and im used to just using rufus and booting from the drive with my usb stick in but the rufus software didnt create it correctly apparently. Why? Idk. I got it right off their site. And all I can say is ill just wait for my regular updates to come through my windows updates even though im apparently running a year old windows version even though those are the updates being given to me through windows update...lol

imanlien2020 · Dec 23, 2022

jds63 said:
I know too, don't get how his is missing.

i do get its not in the root folder its in the child folder so it wont work. Im just being confused with everyone saying, use Rufus, no install via media creation tool, no just mount the iso and intall from my desktop, no extract iso into a folder on desktop click on setup that way, yaddi yaddi..woohoo i get lost sorry, do you not see how im getting all twisted..lol

jds63 · Dec 23, 2022

imanlien2020 said:
well i c

reated the usb and ran the setup.exe. worked fine but afraid to install. Because there are about 10 different ways being explained and im used to just using rufus and booting from the drive with my usb stick in but the rufus software didnt create it correctly apparently. Why? Idk. I got it right off their site. And all I can say is ill just wait for my regular updates to come through my windows updates even though im apparently running a year old windows version even though those are the updates being given to me through windows update...lol

Need to do an upgrade or repair install. Can boot from USB if you prefer to