Installation of Windows 11

[Kelob]

Hi,

I am not going to ask anybody for help, but to share my personal experience with upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 11 on my laptop.

1. Windows Update said that my laptop does not fulfil minimal requirements of Win11, recommended checking laptop health with PC Health Check. I did, result: my hardware meets minimal requirements of Windows11.

2. Installation of Windows 11 with all methods using USB bootable installer ended up at 70% with info: we cannot upgrade partition reserved by system.

3. I got recommendation from Microsoft Support specialist to install again Windows 1, I did, installations ended up at 70% with info: we cannot upgrade partition reserved by system.

4. I asked HP Support specialists for help, help ended up with formatted hard disk and at about 70% of installation info appeared : we cannot install Windows 11 on this laptop, error 0x8007025D.

H P Support specialist decided to call technician specialist to check hardware health especially RAM and SSD  PC SN530 NVMe disk which was indicated by the error 0x8007025D. Unfortunately a quick visit by a technician was impossible to determine because service did not have these spare parts, so a possible replacement would not be possible, so I had to wait with business laptop for the delivery of spare parts - laptop covered by warranty, etc. but no one knew till when.

I decided to take matters into mu own hands, obtained permission from HP Support to disable BitLocker and disable security protections in the BIOS. Then on a home HP 250 G3 formatted the USB flash drive with NTFS system, created Windows 11 installation media, so the installation went smoothly, only Windows installation media creator did not download any drivers for the WLAN card, so I circumvented it by Shift F10, then entered in command line OOBE\BYPASSNRO then enter, and the system started after installation without any problem but no connection to Internet. I downloaded the WLAN card drivers from the HP website, after installation the system started again without any problem.

The whole operation took a few hours, I hope that someone reads this and can benefit from my experience.

Regards,

Kelob

Krakow, Poland