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

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2021-06-24T16:00:22+00:00

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we announced Windows 11, and we know you are excited to get your hands on it. You can check out all the details on how to prepare for Windows 11 Insider Preview builds on our blog post.

Once you've reviewed the blog, please use this post to ask any related questions you may have.

We are excited to hear your feedback!!

-The Windows Insider Team

***UPDATE***

For users who are receiving the following message in your Windows Insider Settings:

Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. Your device may continue to receive Insider Preview builds until Windows 11 is generally available, at which time it is recommended to clean install to Windows 10.

We've made an update to Settings to resolve some issues. Please reboot your device to ensure you have the latest update.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:16:57+00:00

    Hey folks,

    I've been banging my head against this whole "your device is not ready" thing for a couple hours now and I've managed to solve it. Here's what I did.

    First off, I had to enable TPM as it seems many of us were caught out by this. I have an MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX and the steps to do so were as follows:

    1. Boot into BIOS (Press DEL upon boot)
    2. Switch to Advanced Mode (F7)
    3. Settings -> Security -> Trusted Computing and enable the option of "Security Device Support"

    Then I was met with an error that "device health attestation isn't available". To get this available, I needed to convert my boot drive to be UEFI compatible. You can do this with the built in MBR2GPT.exe tool that windows provides. I followed this guide to get it done.

    Then, I switched my boot mode to UEFI and now device health attestation is available and I'm good to go for Windows 11.  

    TL;DR - enable TPM and make sure you're booting in UEFI mode.

    I hope this helps someone!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:17:35+00:00

    Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:20:21+00:00

    Oh, wow. So my i7-6700 is the reason why tool shows it's not meeting requirements, despite having TPM 2.0 etc.

    Just. Wow.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:22:06+00:00

    You need to enable TPM in your BIOS/UEFI.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T20:23:09+00:00

    Not true, those are just OEM requirements. All Windows 11 needs is a dual-core 64 bit processor.

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