Solved Does my Bios supports booting from an USB?

TechnoMage2021 said:

Wanna bet?
It just depends on where you get your Win-11 ISO from.
I'm happily running Win-11 on a PC with a BIOS date of 2008. (actually, several PC's of comparable age)
The only REAL hurdle for installing Win-11 is that the CPU MUST be 64 bit capable.

Now, as for the question about the Flash Drive booting up a PC. It only demands that the USB device be set up to be a "Bootable" drive.
That takes a little doing. They don't come out of the box, "Bootable".
I have many bootable Flash Drives, and even one SD card that is bootable. Some of my USB's will boot to DOS and some to Windows.

Cheers!
TM

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From the official site works?


Thanks
Came

TechnoMage2021 said:

Wanna bet?

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We have to consider the OP's level of technical knowledge when it comes to this. Otherwise, the USB question will not even come up.
We all know Windows 11 will run on any PC. The OP probably means Windows 11 won't run without any work around which she is not probably aware of.

camelia said:

My System can not run Windows 11

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That may not be absolutely true. It won't officially support 11, but there are simple means of circumventing the hardware security checks required for a supported installation. (X58 machines were high-end, when they were new.) It's discussed in detail in the Installation, Updates and Activation forum.

Windows 10 included most (not all) of the security features that are used in Windows 11, but they were disabled on many PCs.

Recent Win 11 installations give a watermark on unsupported hardware, but there's a single Registry key that has to be unset (set to 0) to get rid of that.

Some people at Microsoft have suggest that unsupported machines may not receive updates in the future, but over the more than a year that 11 has been released, the updates continue.

If you're on Windows 10, it will continue to be on support until October of 2025. If you're on something older, perhaps you should upgrade to 10 or 11.

I agree is the USB-HDD options. I also have seen some old BIOS that don't have USB-HDD, but consider a USB flash drive or USB hard disk as a standard disk. This means you choose Hard disk in the boot list, but make sure the USB has higher priority than the internal to boot from USB. Regarding installing Windows 11 on X58, yes it can be done. The oldest system I have successfully installed Windows 11 was an Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2GHz single-core CPU with Hyperthreading, 2GB RAM, IDE (aka PATA) hard disk. Rather slow, the X58 should be WAY faster.