Now, if there just was a good, privacy-friendly, professional OS to move forward to... (no, Windows 1x Linux and Mac are not correct answers).
Why do both Rufus GPT and MBR partition schemes settings create two USB partitions (the first partition has 9.21 GB free in 14.4 GB and the second one has 126 KB free in 0.98 MB) and why do they appear when booting from my USB Flash Drive unlike in my former PC in which none appeared and why does Windows 11's installer create 4 partitions in this PC after installing Windows 11: a 100 MB System one, a 16 MB MSR (Reserved) one, a Primary one and a 554 MB Recovery one, unlike in my former PC?
Well, it does. Kindly give them a thorough read. Your previous PC is most probably based on the legacy BIOS architecture. Another possibility is that even though it supports UEFI, CSM is on and takes precedence. We need the exact model number of the motherboard to determine. If the firmware is a legacy BIOS, then of course a GPT formatted bootable media made by Rufus can't work on the PC, since it is specifically meant for a standard UEFI-compliant platform. In case it's UEFI, then it might be related to the buggy implementation by the OEM/ODM, e.g. some older UEFI firmware can only show the hardcoded "Windows Boot Manager" entry for Windows installers as well as an installed instance. Regarding the partition scheme, as mentioned earlier, everything is mentioned in the Microsoft Learn documentation page. In a nutshell, it's the standard layout for UEFI-capable PCs.
My previous PC only detects the USB flash drive where I burned the Windows 11 ISO at the second time, i.e., after trying to boot from the USB, nothing appears in the list's USB section, so I choose to boot from the HDD, then press CTRL ALT DEL to restart the PC and then the USB flash drive appears.
Please continue that discussion in the dedicated thread you created earlier: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/86081/ Pro tip: Supply as much information as possible when you're asking for help. For example, "my PC is already 8 years old" (your exact verbatim in the aforementioned thread) is quite vague, so mention the exact model name/number of the PC/laptop/motherboard. Also, properly mention how did you create the bootable media, which ISO you used, etc. Since the topic has started deviating from Rufus, it's better to stop here.
I already created a thread for it and the previous Rufus subject was approached in another thread but was moved to here against my will.
Rufus still patches boot.wim? not even small children work that way for a long time, the tendency is to use windows 11 untouched. Forces the same thing in $OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml despite knowing it doesn't work from there, why this fake? two years ago I told you that you can only do it from the root position with the AutoUnattend.xml file
The download link of the first post is offline, please someone can fix it? I have tried to download, from another trusted source, but do not works on my computer maybe because is not compatible, it says: It is not a valid Win32 application, when i run as admin. The specs of the computer: Windows Vista Home Basic SP2 32bit cpu, with all updates avaiable, installed from windows update. Please, can add the support, for windows vista/xp because do not have, another computer suitable to use rufus, for to install Windows 10/11 on the pendrive. Thanks in advance!
Well, and so? Download the ISO manually and apply the patch to it, then flash it with rufus. People survived a decade w/o those additions, I'm sure you will survive as well, just like you're surviving using vista instead of a more current OS
Ok, but to use all features of rufus, need Windows 8 or later, and future releases need a 64-bit cpu. I only asked, the support, for to use the latest version of rufus in the older windows versions (vista and xp) with an older computer can support only 32-bit executable. Thank you : )