Windows 11 on a 2019 MBP is it possible?

[MacCraig Pro]

As per the question really.

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. It currently dual boots Sequoia and Windows 10, but would like it to run Windows 11.

The internet seems to be full of suggestions, but none really seem to work, especially as I need an F10 key during a full install apparently or there's a choice of downloading some half baked spyware that may or may not be able to install W11.

Suggestions.

 

[Snowlover]

Use Rufus to make a windows 11 install usb that bypasses w11 requirements (on your win 10).
Use it to update win 10 to win 11, or clean install win 11.

Use Rufus to Create a Windows 11 Install disk that bypasses TPM, Secure Boot requirements (How-to).

This guide shows how to use RUFUS to create a Windows 11 install disk on a USB, to bypass the TPM, Secure Boot and Microsoft Account requirements to setup Windo

www.wintips.org

 

[MacCraig Pro]

Sadly. making a USB drive via Rufus still causes the dreaded this PC isn't supported message due to the lack of TPM.

Seems I cannot get this thing to upgrade at all no matter what I try.

Use Rufus to make a windows 11 install usb that bypasses w11 requirements (on your win 10).
Use it to update win 10 to win 11, or clean install win 11.

Use Rufus to Create a Windows 11 Install disk that bypasses TPM, Secure Boot requirements (How-to).

This guide shows how to use RUFUS to create a Windows 11 install disk on a USB, to bypass the TPM, Secure Boot and Microsoft Account requirements to setup Windo

www.wintips.org

 

[Grumpus]

Sadly. making a USB drive via Rufus still causes the dreaded this PC isn't supported message due to the lack of TPM.

There are a couple of things you can try (after backing your win10 system up, of course).

Win11 24H2 requires more workarounds to bypass the checks and these will be included in the next release of rufus. If you don't want to wait, rufus' author has provided them here. You would run those commands in an elevated cmd window on win10, then double-click setup.exe on the rufus usb stick to start the upgrade.

An alternate approach is to double-click the win11 iso to mount it, and then open an elevated cmd window and navigate to the mounted iso. Type setup.exe /product server. This bypasses the checks. It doesn't actually turn it into a server, but may have the unwanted side-effect of preventing future feature updates.

If you've ever set the Target Feature Update Version, you should probably turn that off before trying either of the above methods [although, some have reported being offered the upgrade to win11 24H2 by windows update after setting the target version to Windows 11 24H2 - that didn't work for me].

I used the second method to upgrade a 'windows to go' win11 23H2 on a 2019 MBA to win11 24H2 (after unsetting the portable os registry entry). That worked fine, but I haven't had occasion to do the jump from win10 to win11 24H2, so YMMV.