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Cannot upgrade a W10 box to W11 with Samsung SSD 980 and SQL Server 2016 installed. UPDATE.
- Hello Joerg!
This is Angelina. Thank you so much for reaching out regarding this matter. I will try to reach out and see if I can get some help getting this issue resolved.
One thing I would like to suggest is attempting to install Windows 11 via a USB bootable media using the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool. (https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11)
This may allow you to install Windows 11, but I am not entirely sure as I have not encountered this problem before.
Hello. I would like to know if any progress was made on this issue. I have also encountered this issue where the upgrade tool blocks installation if it detects a Samsung SSD and SQL Server (in my case 2019.) This is particularly frustrating as I do not use the Samsung 980 for my database files. Nor is the 980 my system drive. The tool doesn't seem to check for this and the very fact that I even have this hard drive seems to block me from upgrading to Windows 11. As I do not even use the 980 for databases this seems like the cure is worse than the disease as I will not likely encounter any issues running SQL Server on Windows 11 unless I move the DB files to the unsupported drive. It is good to know that I can't use this drive for my DB files but I should not be prevented from installing Windows 11.