Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Ping: Paul Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 20:48:01 +0000 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pv2XrKSCIQbVdpSru/CtSQEFrF0kj8vms+9unsD06iVZmpwEy/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:erGm55yYnJy4g1Hm8LRtVLzUnOs= sha256:E1EcMQtp5ULkwmLSRVSWaIao6BwRLBxpvZjC95gw1eM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:43622 On 07/01/2025 17:51, Mike Easter wrote: > David wrote: >> I have a Dell laptop on which I have Hiren's BootCD  PE Windows 11 >> running after using my Ventoy thumb drive loaded with Hiren's Disk. >> >> How can best can I install Windows 11 permanently from the Windows >> start page I'm on right now? > > Hirens is NOT for installing Win and you should not be installing Win11 > on that machine anyway, because you told me in another thread that you > checked that machine's hardware w/ the MS Win11 suitability checker and > it failed. > > The reason for booting Hirens on the Dell was to check and see if the > speaker system would work in a Windows environment when it didn't in > more than one Linux environment. > > If you/'we' decide to install Win to dual boot on a machine which has an > existing MX installed that is another story.  Let us find out if the > speakers work first, then decide if we are going to upgrade the BIOS/ > UEFI to the '21 version or not, and go from there. > > My understanding is that you had a W10 on that machine and if you were > going to install a Win you should be installing the same Win that the > machine has an OEM license for. Apologies for any confusion. I do NOT want to install a dual boot arrangement. What I think I want to do is remove Hirens boot disk and put a Windows 10 iso onto another thumb drive and boot from that. WHICH Windows iso though? -- David