Windows 11 upgrade

Apps and Virtualization
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i currently have win 10 on my system I would like to upgrade to 11. I have tried ```
I have tried cli -c “service vm update id=X machine_type=q35 arch_type=x86_64 trusted_platform_module=true” with the x being replaces with the number.

and I get this back. usage: cli [-h] [–url URL] [–user USER] [–password PASSWORD] [–timeout TIMEOUT] [-c COMMAND] [-i] [–menu] [–menu-item MENU_ITEM] [-m MODE] [–pager] [–print-template] [–stacks]
cli: error: unrecognized arguments: vm update id=5 machine_type=q35 arch_type=x86_64 trusted_platform_module=true”

any info?

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I had a situation with my “free upgrade” to Windows 11 on my laptop. I tried everything. Registry changes, tweak this, tweak that, weeks I spent on this, weeks I say.

Then I found the solution and if it worked on my 10+ year old laptop, then it should work on a VM I suspect as well. I most certainly will not buy a new laptop when my current one is in terrific condition.

With all that said… Here is a portion of an email I sent a friend having the exact same type of problem I was having. Things to know: My laptop does not have a TPM, a Recommended CPU, nor enough RAM. I had an i7 CPU and 16GB RAM.

Last week my laptop updated itself to the current Windows 11 version without issue.

Please note that you take all the risk if something goes wrong. I just checked the uupdump site and it is still up and running. This site is authorized to rebuild and distribute Windows ISO files. Using an older version apparently makes a difference somehow (maybe). But it worked for me.

Please let me know how it goes for you. I am curious if there is some limitation that a VM might bring to it, and if you are updating Pro, I’d like to know how it goes for that as well.

Here is the process I used:

  1. Go to this website: https://uupdump.net/
  2. Find out what your laptop feature update is, mine was Windows 10 H21, something like that. I was shocked it said Windows 10 at all since it is running windows 11.
  3. The upper section of the screen, center, you will see “Windows 11” button, press it.
  4. Because I have Windows 10 21H, I took a gamble and selected Windows 11 23H2.
  5. The next screen you will see a lot of possible versions to choose from, I selected the top x64 one.
  6. After you select that, you will be asked 3 more questions, English, Windows Home (deselect Pro), and on page 3 leave it at the default settings and select Create Download Package.
  7. A small ZIP file will be downloaded which will be used to download all the required components and to build a new ISO.
  8. Here is the tricky part, to build the ISO you need to run the script on a Windows 11 computer. I used my laptop which would no longer update.
  9. Tricky part #2, you need to have some hard drive space to download and build the new image. I had about 20GB free and used up most of it. Once I copied the ISO to a USB drive, I deleted all the files it downloaded to recover the space.
  10. Tricky part #3, you MUST disable your firewall blocking software. I just disabled Norton completely until after I rebooted the machine. If you do not do this, you may be missing some files for the build.

Let’s start to build…

  1. I created a folder on my Desktop called Win11ISO and extracted the zip file to this location.
  2. Open this folder and right click on the file uup_download_windows.cmd and select run as administrator, Windows Defender will complain. You may have a few other complaints based on any protection product you have, but I ran out of warnings like that after about 10 minutes, then I sat back and did other things while the files were downloading.
  3. Now you wait. Last night my internet was a whole 6Mbps (slow as hell!) so I let the laptop run all night. Eventually the script will stop but it takes quite a while.
  4. When it does stop, look in the Win11ISO folder for a large ISO file.
  5. Now using Rufus (www.rufus.ie) create a bootable USB Flash Drive, and select the options to remove the TPM and RAM checks. Burn it.
  6. Do not boot from the USB flash drive, instead you should be able to see the setup program file now and just run it. Tell it you want to Upgrade and preserver your data. It will start an upgrade process.
  7. When it starts, there is a tiny link to change how it updates, click it, tell it to NOT download updates during the process, that is what I did. It may work the other way around but I didn’t want to wait on the internet to even see if it partially worked.
  8. Once all of that is done you should have a Windows 11 23H2.
  9. Check for Updates. Hopefully it will find some and process them.