Installing Win11 on ZBook 15 G2

[starbinder]

Hi Guys, 

i want to install Win 11 on my ZBook G2 15''. Are there any known issues doing this? 

THX

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Your notebook does not meet the W11 hardware specs, so you would have to use one of the several W11 hardware check bypass methods to install W11 on your notebook.

If you want to install W11 on your notebook, anyway, see this discussion for how I've done it on many HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's:

The guide to set up Rufus is if you have Windows installed in UEFI mode. 

If you have Windows installed in Legacy mode, then select the MBR partition scheme from the menu.

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

[starbinder]

I used rufus to bypass the checks and the installation runs until the reboot and it crashes then with this error:

0xC1900101 0x20017

i updated all drivers, disconnected all external hardware but it still crashes.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Unfortunately, I wouldn't know what to do about that problem.

I never got any errors like that on my HP Elitebooks.

I would google the error code.

You can also try clean installing W11 using the same media you created but you will have to reinstall all of your programs and files if you do.

I had to clean install W11 22H2 on a couple of PC's that refused to do an in-place upgrade.

I never got any errors though.

When the first blue progress screen was going, at around the 80% complete level, it just suddenly returned to the desktop.

No error codes, no nothing.

The clean install worked fine on any of my PC's if the upgrade did not.

[AndyKietNguyen]

I took out the SSD (2242) out z15 G2, install Windows 11 22H2 in another laptop then move it back 

[Lionn016]

Same error on a ZBook 17 G2. Also tried updating drivers and the BIOS, but to no avail. I guess it's the end of the line for these ZBooks.

[starbinder]

I tried installing Windows 11 with the Windows 10 installer by replacing the main installation file.

This worked miracously for me. Dont ask my why, though 🤣

[Lionn016]

22H2? Also, are you referring to the install.wim file? Last I heard it no longer works, but jt worked for me for 21H2.