Question Minimum System Requirements for Windows 11 install ?

[Artisanico]

Windows won't let me upgrade to Win 11 as my system doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

I have only got 220 GB on my C-Drive but - unless you can advise me otherwise - this can be stretched as it's on a 500 GB solid state drive.

Will I need to replace my C-drive with a different one, then plug in my current C-drive as a slave, in order to carry this out? I don't want to have to re-format!

I am wondering whether I will easily be able to increase the RAM to the required 16 GB?

In the Display section of DirectX Diagnostiocs, I see I have an Intel G33/G31 Express chipset family
chip type Intel GMA 3100.
Is this sufficient?

Some further info:
Inspiron 545
x64 based PC
Pentium Dual COre CPU E5200 @2.5GHz
Dell Inc. AOS 09/04/2009
SMBIOS v. 2.5
Secure Noot State: unsupported
Installed physical memory 4.00 GB
Total physical memory 3.99 GB
Available Physical memory 423 MB
Total virtual memory 6.24 GB
Available virtual memory 1.75 GB
Page File Space 2.25 GB

TIA

 

[Lutfij]

Your processor is not on this list;
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

With that said, IMHO, you shouldn't be beyond Windows 7 with that platform of yours;
https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/inspiron-545/drivers

 

[SkyNetRising]

Windows won't let me upgrade to Win 11 as my system doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

Pentium Dual Core E5200 @2.5GHz​

Dell Inc. AOS 09/04/2009​

Are you trolling?
That system is 16-17 years old.
For Windows 11 you'll need a new CPU, new motherboard and new RAM.

 

[popatim]

The CPU list isn't accurate from my experience. For example I installed 11 on a i5-7500t just last week and also have it installed on a 6500t as well. Both Dell USFF's were installed using the Media Creation tool's made flash drive but was not the current version since I wanted local accounts on 7500t.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

The CPU list isn't accurate from my experience. For example I installed 11 on a i5-7500t just last week and also have it installed on a 6500t as well. Both Dell USFF's were installed using the Media Creation tool's made flash drive but was not the current version since I wanted local accounts on 7500t.

7500t is maybe a year off of being the supported list and almost identical to some CPUs which are on the list. The platform very well may support uefi, secure boot, tpm2.0 etc.

Wolfdale is very much not Skylake and has none of that.

I believe with more recent feature updates that 11 now requires instructions that the Pentium E5200 physically does not support, so no level of bypassing requirements will fix this. Even if you found a way to make it work, Windows 11 would be horrendously slow on this system and Microsoft is unlikely to allow automatic updates if it detects incompatible hardware.

 

[cruisetung]

Buy a new one. Just over $100

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mini+pc&i=electronics&rh=n:172282,p_n_operating_system_browse-bin:23724789011%7C23724790011,p_n_condition-type:2224371011&s=price-asc-rank&dc&ds=v1&crid=1J66E0HV453ZD&qid=1753961644&rnid=2224369011&sprefix=mini+pc,aps,318&ref=sr_nr_p_n_condition-type_1

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_processor_n100-vs-intel_pentium_e5200