Windows 11 from Official ISO Installer

Windows 11 final update was released by Microsoft a couple of weeks back. My laptops were all updated as a result.

By George! One laptop suddenly threw some errors. Then on recovery, it was unable to find the boot device!

By hardware design, I think the laptop is bound to fail in the new Windows 11 OS as there is a substantial tweak done to this laptop in Windows 7 and Windows 10. At least during the beta release, it was running.

These are the specs of the said machine:
> HP Envy TS15
> SSD: SATA and miniSATA
> 2x 8GB RAM
> current OS: Windows 10

As mentioned earlier, there is a tweak done to make the SATA and mSATA drives work together. That is done in the BIOS and in some settings in Windows.

When the production version of Windows 11 was released and this laptop was updated, the tweaks were wiped out. That caused the issue of the boot device not being found. I wasn't prepared for that, but life must go on, and that I wanted to see how the production version of Windows 11 fares. Curiouser and curiouser!

Hard way it is, so after trying several times as I did in Windows 7 and Windows 10, installing Windows 11 with the SATA and mSATA drive, or only the SATA drive then putting in the mSATA drive, changing BIOS settings, Windows settings, etc., etc., I found that Windows 11 UEFI with SecureBoot on can only work on this machine with only the SATA drive installed. And that is all the time. So I had to ditch the 512 GB mSATA drive foregoing the real-time online additional computing space.

I went for that and did a clean install of Windows 11, and voila! Lesser space and bare basics for this unit and Windows 11 64 bit UEFI was installed and running. And yes, it is a better OS than Windows 10.

Now I don't get the blue screen of death, or at least I still don't get it. Normally I would open Chrome with at least 20 tabs open and my laptop still goes through smoothly. Perhaps Windows 11 is a better OS after all.

Wanna try it? Go ahead and see how it goes. Let's hear from you soon!

Till then!