Rufus Windows 11 ISO - and added windows 11 tweaks to answer file

[Markverhyden]

How did you make out?

Finally got around to making the stick using rufus 4.13 and 25H2. Put the autounattend.xml at the root of the stick. Based on what I'm seeing I think it's chocked up on the UEFI stuff. Set that up on rufus, verified all bios setting, cleared out stored TPM still will not boot from the stick. Reads from the stick but eventually lands back in the repair loop. So I'm going to try the MS Media Creator tool just as it is.

Forgot to mention this is an HP Elitebook 860 G7 so it has all that corporate/fleet management stuff in BIOS. I already nuked it once but with W10P which is what it came with.

 

[LordX]

Finally got around to making the stick using rufus 4.13 and 25H2. Put the autounattend.xml at the root of the stick. Based on what I'm seeing I think it's chocked up on the UEFI stuff. Set that up on rufus, verified all bios setting, cleared out stored TPM still will not boot from the stick. Reads from the stick but eventually lands back in the repair loop. So I'm going to try the MS Media Creator tool just as it is.

Rufus buries its answer file in a different location - but if you are getting stuck booting from the USB - rufus is now offering TWO different Secure boot options. One is the newer secure boot, which will not work on any older machine, or any newer machine without the 2023 secure boot bios update installed. Most of my installs are still using the old one, as it works on everything still.

 

[Markverhyden]

Rufus buries its answer file in a different location - but if you are getting stuck booting from the USB - rufus is now offering TWO different Secure boot options. One is the newer secure boot, which will not work on any older machine, or any newer machine without the 2023 secure boot bios update installed. Most of my installs are still using the old one, as it works on everything still.

I actually got around to RTFM'ing and it indicated you had to turn off secure recovery to use a conventional image. We'll see what happens.