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On 10/15/2021 at 7:17 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

What are your system specs?

 

Anything that originally comes with w7 is prob decade old crap hardware that will run like absolute garbage on w10, more like a downgrade rather than an update

W7, 4GB ram, VM tho

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So I've decided to try out windows 11, but via a VM(so that if I don't like it I don't have to keep it), and it was originally windows 7 which can apparently not run the upgrade.

So I decided to upgrade to 10 first but it constantly keeps coming up with this error

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Is this normal?(I don't know for myself because this is my first time installing windows 10, my main PC had it installed by my manufacturer)

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What are your system specs?

 

Anything that originally comes with w7 is prob decade old crap hardware that will run like absolute garbage on w10, more like a downgrade rather than an update

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If you were running a VM with Windows 7 it is going to be setup using Legacy(MBR) which is not compatible with Windows 11, even if you upgrade it to Windows 10 it will still be in Legacy. You need to either make a new Windows 11 VM that is setup in UEFI(GPT) or make a fresh Windows 10 VM in UEFI and then upgrade it to Windows 11. Otherwise it is not going to work. The easiest way for you to get Windows 11 running on a VM would be to just set up a new VM, not try to reconfigure your old one.

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On 10/15/2021 at 7:17 PM, Somerandomtechyboi said:

What are your system specs?

 

Anything that originally comes with w7 is prob decade old crap hardware that will run like absolute garbage on w10, more like a downgrade rather than an update

W7, 4GB ram, VM tho

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On 10/15/2021 at 7:33 PM, SpookyCitrus said:

If you were running a VM with Windows 7 it is going to be setup using Legacy(MBR) which is not compatible with Windows 11, even if you upgrade it to Windows 10 it will still be in Legacy. You need to either make a new Windows 11 VM that is setup in UEFI(GPT) or make a fresh Windows 10 VM in UEFI and then upgrade it to Windows 11. Otherwise it is not going to work. The easiest way for you to get Windows 11 running on a VM would be to just set up a new VM, not try to reconfigure your old one.

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