II had the same exact scenario and yes it made a windows.old but it wiped the drive as a clean install and I did not have the option to roll back...it simply was not there to select.
Happy to hear she didn't lose anything of importance. This seems very odd to me in that it did create a Windows.old, so this was indeed started as an upgrade. What happened from there is quite puzzling.
Like I said on one of my posts..I do not get the option to Go Back...It is not there...And it was not 10 days past..it was an hour. What is weird is yes I did have a windows.old file. It makes no sense. There should be a way to do it without what is supposed to be there to do it. Like a 3rd party program. On my computer I always have 2 images...Macrium and SnapShot in case of disaster.
@uffbros Anyway she should've had a backup of all her personal documents prior to ANY procedure. Why people never listen to this advice, I wonder.
Note that, even when clean installing from boot, it will move an old Windows installation into Windows.old if you select a partition that contains one and choose NOT to format it. That's because two Windows installations cannot exist on the same partition.
I copied AutoUnattend.xml to root of extracted ISO and started Setup, but it complained about 3 things including TPM and Secure Boot. Then I disconnected from internet and tried again - it complained only about Secure Boot (doesn't sound logical to me ...). Then, after reading the quoted post, I simply renamed appraiserres.dll to _appraiserres.dll. After that Setup didn't complain and I am now attempting to perform full upgrade. I am running it on Win10 OS running from USB drive ... I am curious if it will finish successfully.
AutoUnattend.xml does not exclude separate or two restrictions, excludes all five at once. So it looks like you're talking bullsh*t, even more so in the part related to the internet. Show where you are checking/reading what is on/off ??
Stop your attacks. Not appropriate and not helpful. AutoUnattend.xml was placed where it should be: Directory of G:\Win11-ISO 26-Oct-21 21:49 <DIR> . 19-Jul-21 18:20 128 autorun.inf 22-Oct-21 11:13 933 AutoUnattend.xml 19-Jul-21 18:20 <DIR> boot 19-Jul-21 18:20 436,664 bootmgr 19-Jul-21 18:20 2,003,272 bootmgr.efi 19-Jul-21 18:20 <DIR> efi 19-Jul-21 18:20 94,680 setup.exe 26-Oct-21 21:59 <DIR> sources 19-Jul-21 18:20 <DIR> support My full upgrade finished a minute before I started to write this message. Applications and settings are preserved. I run it all without internet connection - I connected when the setup fully finished. The AutoUnnatend.xml could work because there were no prompts during the whole upgrade, only 2 reboots inbetween.
Show where you are checking/reading what is on/off ?? Everyone who reads this is curious to find out where and how you read it, they would love to read it too.
When Setup launched, after few seconds it started to check my computer if it is suitable for upgrade. Then it displayed results with 3 complains for the first time - TPM, Secure Boot and I don't remember the third one, but they were three. When I tried once again without internet connection, then the computer check took longer time and there was only one complain (Secure Boot). Then I renamed the appraiserres.dll and restarted Setup. This time it skipped the computer check and it went straight to upgrade itself - it asked me howto do it - I chose to retain installed applications. My PC is Fujitsu CELSIUS H760 i7-6820HQ.
Yeah but will the newly installed windows 11 have all my applications installed like my windows 10 does or will it be a completely fresh and clean windows 11 without my applications installed?
Not when you installed a new OS over the old OS, from what i read here that is what is actually done, only after a properly performed upgrade the "go back to the previous OS" option will be available.
I have Win 10 21H1 installed. I'ld like to upgrade/update (not sure if this is the right term) to windows 11 while keeping all my applications intact. I thought win 11 gets pushed to everyone through windows update. I can't imagine that everyone will loose all their installed apps so there has to be a way to upgrade to windows 11 while keeping all your apps. My problem just is I have to work around TPM 2 so just doing windows update doesn't do it and that's why I'm here.