You can, and should, completely circumvent the windows installation program unless you need to upgrade your current system.
For a clean install you can use the command line, either from your current windows if you choose to install to a different disk for dual booting (or if connecting the drive externally is really easy for you) or from the rescue environment if booting from installation media.
This command takes the installation file from drive E: and installs it to drive G: change that to whatever the drive you want to install to is currently lettered as. To mount the installation media DVD just double click on it and windows will mount it.
dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile E:\Sources\install.esd /index:1 /ApplyDir:G:\
index:1 takes the first option, usually windows x64 home, if you want to install something else (always only install the version you have the license for) you can use this command to see your options.
dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile E:\Sources\install.esd
This will completely ignore any tpm or cpu compatibilities.
To make this bootable add it to the boot menu either with easybcd if you already in windows, or by using this command from recovery.
G:\Windows\System32\bcdboot G:\Windows
Again changing G: to whatever your win11 drive is currently lettered as.
If you want to give the boot menu entry a different name from recovery use
start /wait bcdedit /set {default} description "W11 super awesome boot menu entry"
To see the drive letters enter diskpart by typing diskpart and hitting enter.
then -list volume- gives you a list of the volumes.
If you don't have a free partition go to disk management and create a virtual hard disk (VHD) and mount it(menu -action create- and -action attach- ) , all the commands stay the same, 60Gb is a good size if you can keep your drive relatively clean, after installing drivers and some basic apps it will be around 30Gb used.
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