Windows 7 to 11Problem

[Good_Omen23]

I recently purchased a new computer with Windows 11 and I must say I have been pretty happy with the operation. Happier than I was with Windows 10.
Now I would like to upgrade my HP laptop to 11 but I figured I would need to update it first from 7 to 10. I've already done this with 3 older
computers, with no problem, but this computer keeps coming up with an 0x80072F8F error. It has 7 with SP1, 8GB of RAM, and 50GB of HD space available
with an i5 processor. I tried running Windows as an Administrator, I updated the Registry and emptied the Software Distribution Folder, as
recommended but, I still get the error. Anyone have any other ideas? Thank you.

 

[Grizzly]

50GB of HD space available

Therein lies the problem. Windows 11 requires a minimum HDD space of 64GB or it will not install.

 

[Bighorn]

To add, a machine that came with Win7 probably won't meet the requirements of Win11 for TPM/Trusted Platform Module and at least an 8th Generation for the Intel CPU.

Windows processor requirements Windows 11 supported Intel processors

This specification details the Intel processors that can be used with Windows 11 customer systems that include Windows products, including custom images.

learn.microsoft.com

There also is a list for AMD CPUs.

 

[Grizzly]

I had a laptop that came with Vista. I still could install Windows 11 by bypassing the requirements. However, my other laptop won't even boot into the setup of Win11 and it came with Windows 7.

 

[Bighorn]

I also have a few older Notebooks that can't properly run Win11 default install but would imagine there's some BIOS setting/s that will get in the way of the install even with 'tweaks' applied. It appears to be all about the Security stuff and drive formatting of MBR or GPT, boot UEFI, etc.

 

[The Shadow 2023]

I have found just one irrefutable condition for installing Windows 11 on any PC. That is, that the PC must be 64 bit compatible. So far, anyway, there is no 32 bit version of Win-11.
I have installed Win-11 on several of my own PC's that are many years old, and not a one has 'TMP' and most have AMD Athlon cpu's. Definitely NOT state of the art.
If my PC were any older, it would run on Steam.

 

[Good_Omen23]

I had a laptop that came with Vista. I still could install Windows 11 by bypassing the requirements. However, my other laptop won't even boot into the setup of Win11 and it came with Windows 7.

Can't get past this error message. Tried so many things. Older laptops were OK. This one has better specs based on the requirements. So frustrating. Just going to leave it for right now.

 

[Good_Omen23]

I also have a few older Notebooks that can't properly run Win11 default install but would imagine there's some BIOS setting/s that will get in the way of the install even with 'tweaks' applied. It appears to be all about the Security stuff and drive formatting of MBR or GPT, boot UEFI, etc.

So frustrating!

 

[RogerOver]

So frustrating!

Are you really limted to 50 GB (see the contribution from Grizzly) ? If you could overcome this issue (extending the partition), you could try to convert your disk to GPT without losing any data with one of those methods: https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/convert-mbr-to-gpt-without-data-loss-windows-7.html Do a full backup first.

 

[The Shadow 2023]

Use Rufus to burn the Windows 11 ISO to a Flash Drive, and when asked, select all options.


The result will be a Flash Drive that will install Win-11 just about anywhere, as long as the PC has a 64 bit CPU.