Question Upgrade to W11 but have W10 legacy install

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Titanion

Titanion

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I have to own this one. I did not check the settings, obviously, years ago when I installed W10 on this computer. It was set to W7 enabled and W10 disabled, so legacy mode. Now I want to upgrade to W11 and I noticed I could not get it to boot in secure boot or UEFI in W10.

W10 is registered, and I do not want to reinstall W10 on this machine in case a problem shows up. I want to upgrade it to W11.

Can I turn that legacy install into a version W11 will grab onto and upgrade from? Thanks.
 
Titanion said:
Can I turn that legacy install into a version W11 will grab onto and upgrade from? Thanks.
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punkncat said:
Is the hardware in your sig what you are trying to do this with?
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That is a rather old CPU that's way off the workable unofficial CPU's from Microsoft lists,

I see where your thought are there punkncat if were thinking the same thing.

Tell you what Titanion tomorrow I will get one of our old AMD board and your age CPU and see what happens if I install Windows 11 on it and report back. I will do the grunt work so you don't have to risk it.

My thought on using your working Windows 10 and having the chance that 11 just sucks I would not risk it at this point. Use a spare hard drive or SSD to test it out first.

I will go grab the parts now to be ready to fire it up in the morning.
 
Okay I have an old ASUS A-8N-LA motherboard and a ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 motherboard about as close as I have still if you are indeed trying to do this on the AMD 4200+

Looks like I need to look deeper as the two old AMD boards are 32 bit CPU's.

If memory serves me correct I should have a 64 x2 6000+ but that board is like Casper the ghost. Shows up when I'm not looking for it and than puff it's gone again.
 
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Titanion said:
Can I turn that legacy install into a version W11 will grab onto and upgrade from? Thanks.
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On your purposed idea to run Windows 11 on the old AMD Toledo X2 4200+ if that is your intention I would not as a daily driver.

My reasoning to try it out and report back to you is the proof of concept factor.

I did find this this morning. But I'm sure Microsoft has went out of there way as they have noted with the "workable non official" CPU's to the it's not happening CPU's.

 
Love you guys for worrying about my old DFI motherboard. 😀 It was once a prise, but it was retired long ago. It actually didn't reach retirement; it died. Screwed it into the wall in my garage as a trophy. Ya, those AMD builds were still ok up until W10 wouldn't install on them, except the 32 bit that maxed out at 4GB of ram. The Sig remains for nostalgia. It it still one of the builds I remain most proud of.

But the MSI something motherboard on this computer (I'll look it up) doesn't meet W11 requirements, but is has i5-6600k in it and I was going to try it anyway. I know how to get around that issue. The problem is fixing my botched W10 install.
 
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I have only used this option to install with a local account, not paying much attention to the other features. But looking now the the secure boot option is clearly one of the selling points.

Doing this will be easier. This machine is now just an extra gaming computer for friends to play on.

Is there any reason to get secure boot working? Thanks
 
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