Recent content by sfernley

Thanks @Bree, yes that worked. Just to be clear for other viewers of this thread, Windows 11 24H2 contains an updated Setup application, however it also has the option to the use "Previous Setup" which is what was used in Windows versions prior to 24H2. Using the previous version does indeed...

Download the latest ISO from Microsoft, just google "Download Windows 11" Download Rufus from rufus.ie which you can then use to create USB Installation media but you can add customisations, one of which is to use a local account rather than the MS account. Tutorial here -

My point was that the usual Windows installation method which works ok up until 23H2 no longer works on 24H2. It's good to know that applying an image using DISM still works though so I really appreciate you testing it. I'm hoping Microsoft fix this in a later build, but it's not the end of the...

Bree, I've also tried it with an 80GB size VHD. I'm not doing anything any different than what I've done successfully with 23H2 and earlier.

hsehestedt How did you install Windows 11 - 24H2 to the VHD? Did you do a clean install? Or some other deployment method, like using DISM or other deployment tool? I'm not disputing other deployment methods, but doing a normal clean install, eg. Booting from the 24H2 ISO file, mounting the...

Jimbo That's interesting. What method did you use to install that Canary version of Windows? Was it a Clean Install or an In-Place upgrade from an earlier version of Windows?

cereberus Are you using vhdx file? Yes The size of the vhdx drive needs to be smaller than spare space on physical hard drive (allow extra 20 GB for temporary files). Yes, the size of the VHD is smaller than spare space on the physical disk. So if hard drive has 200GB spare, max size of VHDX...

I didn't follow that particular tutorial but what I did was very similar. I've done this successfully many times on different computers. I've even created a tutorial for this on Youtube: But since version 24H2 was released a couple of weeks ago, this version won't do a successful clean...

I've tried to install Windows 11 - 24H2 to a virtual disk VHD file. The installation gets to the end but then reports "Install Failed". This worked ok on all versions earlier than 24H2. I wonder if it's a bug or intentionally blocked by Microsoft?

Windows 11 version 24H2 fails to install to a VHD file. It gets all the way to the end of the install then fails with error "Installation failed" or something similar. Any version prior to 24H2 is fine. I wonder if this is a bug in 24H2 or if Microsoft have intentionally blocked this. I...