PC "doesn't meet" windows minimum requirements

[DrSteinein]

Hello, I was installing a game(dcs) and when I went to check the download, my pc was in bios. I tried booting back into windows and was greeted by a "no boot device found" error message. Upon checking my drive list in bios, my 2tb HDD showed up, but not my 1tb m.2 SSD, where my windows was installed. I tried a different pcie slot, no difference. I believe the SSD to be dead. After coming to this conclusion, I thought I would just remove the SSD, and install a fresh windows on the HDD from a usb, however once I had plugged in the usb, turned on the computer, selected windows 11 home, and clicked next, the message "This pc doesn't meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of windows, for more information visit Https://aka.ms/WindowsSystemReq". My pc definitely meets minimum system requirements, with an i7 11700f, 32gigs of ram, and an rtx 3090, besides, it used to run windows just fine. I don't know what to do, I was wondering if I had to reformat my HDD, or update my bios (I am using an Asus tuf z490 plus with bios version 2420 if that helps). Any insight into what I should do?

[DrSteinein]

I'm using a 16 gig usb, the minimum requirements for windows 11 is 64 gigs, (my HDD is 2tb), should I try to flash the windows setup to to HDD directly instead?

[Mumintroll]

Your pc should meet the requirements just fine.

But you could to bypass those requirements using Rufus, to create a custom installation. You'll need to download the iso file and then the Rufus app.

 

For the SSD, if you have another pc or you could ask a friend to test it on his/hers pc, do so just to make sure it's dead.

How old is it? Perhaps you have warranty left?

[Kilrah]

You might not have TPM enabled (Intel PTT) in the BIOS.

[Mumintroll]

btw when you did try to install Win 11 was it already partitions on the harddrive? If yes were they MBR?

Windows 11 requires GPT as partition style.

[DrSteinein]

Thanks for the feedback, I will definitely test the SSD, however I solved the minimum requirements issue by selecting the usb as the primary boot device, previously the HDD was the primary boot device, with the usb as the secondary. Not sure what that changed, but it worked.