Preparing for Insider Preview Builds of Windows 11 - ***UPDATED 6/28***

The post you are answering is a continuation of one I wrote about windows 11

(yes, I successfully installed 11 and its minion-upgrade) saying my hardware security was inadequate, and to "learn more" by checking some website listing three or four things.

Enough storage, adequate TPM, and the rest I forgot but the one thing I have no clue about is "UEFI Mat" which is a fancy table listing the computer's UEFI capabilities.

There's another tool available on windows 11 that is more caustic.

I don't have Modern-standby ("S0 mode") so for example Cortana cannot listen for me while the computer is sleeping,

And I have a blacklisted DMA-capable PCI-Bus (Apparently DMA is so last-year).

I can whitelist the bus but the S0 mode (and possibly, my UEFI revision) cannot be changed, at least by me.

PS I also wrote further back that the vague problem I had with W11 not installing at *all* wasn't a security-thing at all but a crude installation that does not allow for multiple drives.

Offlining one of my drives made it happy.

Problem is, no one actually said to do that, except in binary subcode 0x20009 (that's from my memory).

So here I sit, not waiting for some voice of Doom to finally pontificate that I am unworthy; I'd rather clear up any problems now before they lay down the law.

But I've done what I can.

You are doing some great work here. Thanks for the update and your hard work to clarify what is happening. Not a fan of ordering yet another expensive motherboard only to find there is some 'fine detail' that Apple ( OOps! Windows) does not like...

Since I have successfully in installed Windows 11 OS Build 22000.51 and using it for 6days. But I have not received any type of updates. Can someone confirm that is normal?

The post you are answering is a continuation of one I wrote about windows 11

(yes, I successfully installed 11 and its minion-upgrade) saying my hardware security was inadequate, and to "learn more" by checking some website listing three or four things.

Enough storage, adequate TPM, and the rest I forgot but the one thing I have no clue about is "UEFI Mat" which is a fancy table listing the computer's UEFI capabilities.

There's another tool available on windows 11 that is more caustic.

I don't have Modern-standby ("S0 mode") so for example Cortana cannot listen for me while the computer is sleeping,

And I have a blacklisted DMA-capable PCI-Bus (Apparently DMA is so last-year).

I can whitelist the bus but the S0 mode (and possibly, my UEFI revision) cannot be changed, at least by me.

PS I also wrote further back that the vague problem I had with W11 not installing at *all* wasn't a security-thing at all but a crude installation that does not allow for multiple drives.

Offlining one of my drives made it happy.

Problem is, no one actually said to do that, except in binary subcode 0x20009 (that's from my memory).

So here I sit, not waiting for some voice of Doom to finally pontificate that I am unworthy; I'd rather clear up any problems now before they lay down the law.

But I've done what I can.

I'm planning to investigate this on my machine when I get home tonight, but I'm curious.... Have you previously ran any kind of drive encryption in the past that may make the tool think you don't have enough drive space?

It sure would be nice if the tool said WHY it doesn't meet specs when it rejects it. After all, it detected a specific rule problem so why not report the detail?

Thanks. But I'm not really in a rush at the moment. I've been on Windows Insider since before there was such a program when they used to send free Microsoft Branded stuff like laptop bags coffee mugs, pens, Etc to us.:-) I'm more concerned with being stuck in a year having to choose to either spend over $2000 to get a new laptop with the same features and capabilities I have now, sacrifice some features I use now, or stick with win 10. None of these options seem right. I really hope that enough people in similar situations get them to back off on the specs list because I'm certain my machine will outperform many on the list with the minimum requirements for a few more years.

With that said, I keep reading of people don't have the same trouble installing on other machines that don't meet the requirement, and others that can't install despite meeting all of the requirements. I just remembered that until two years ago I was using whatever truecrypt's successor's name was. I wonder if I don't have some encrypted file structure stuff hidden in the background that I can't see that leaves Windows thinking that there isn't enough drive space available that's really available. If so, I may have inadvertently found a bug and I'm curious if some of the others who can't install despite meeting the specs may have had 3rd party encryption at some point in the past..... Lol I'm going to investigate this route a little bit and if I resolve it I'll post about it.