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Windows 11 Installation

  1. Create Perfect Round Number Hard Drive Partitions

    Step 1: Decide on your partition size

For this example, I want a 2TB partition and a 500GB partition.
Step 2: Convert your target to MB

Each of the next few steps varies depending on the size of your target partition.

TB x 1,000,000 = MB
Example: 2 TB x 1,000,000 = 2,000,000 MB

GB x 1,000 = MB
Example: 500 GB x 1,000 = 500,000 MB
Step 3: Convert to mebibytes

Due to the difference between how Windows and hard drive manufacturers report the size of a kilobyte/kibibyte (beyond the scope of this how-to), you must convert to mebibytes.

TB in MB x 1.048576 = MiB
Example: 2,000,000 MB x 1.048576 = 2,097,152 MiB

GB in MB x 1.024 = MiB
Example: 500,000 MB x 1.024 = 512,000 MiB
Step 4: Compensate for partition overhead

As is you will end up just short of your target. Add extra bytes to your result.

TB in MiB + 4.096 KB = Total MiB
Example: 2,097,152 MiB + 4,096 KB = 2,101,248 MiB

GB in MiB + 1,024 KB = Total MiB
Example: 512,000 MiB + 1,024 KB = 513,024 MiB

  2. Resizing EFI partition during Windows 11 installation

    1. Proceed until the "disks screen"

    2. Shift+F10 to open a command prompt

    3. diskpart
list disk
select disk <N>
create partition efi size=4096 # MB
exit

    4. Close the command prommpt

    5. Do not forget to hit the Refresh on the "disks screen"

  3. Installing Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account AKA take control of you user name.

    1. Follow the install process until you get to the "choose a country" screen

    2. Shift+F10 to open a command prompt

    3. Disable the Internet connection requirement

      OOBE\BYPASSNRO

    4. The computer will reboot

    5. Shift+F10 to open a command prompt

    6. Disable the Internet

      ipconfig /release

    7. Continue with the installation until the "networks screen"

    8. I donโ€™t have Internet

    9. Continue with limited setup

    10. Select your user name on the "Whoโ€™s going to use this device?" screen

    11. Select your password on the next screen

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