How to clean install windows 11 on a new computer?

As far as I know, people are planning to give a try on Windows 11 and a lot of new users need guideline on this. To clean install Windows 11 on a new computer or PC, the internal hard drive or SSD should be formatted with GPT as Windows 11 does not MBR disk. You can follow the steps listed below to partition the drive to GPT with a bootable USB:

1. Insert the created Windows 11 boot USB flash drive into your computer, turn on the computer and enter BIOS/UEFI setup (usually press F2, Del or F12 to enter).

2. Set the USB flash drive as the first boot item, save and reboot to enter the Windows installation interface.

3. After selecting the language and time format in the installation interface, click “Install Now”. Enter the product key (optional), select “I don't have a product key” to skip.

4. Select the version of Windows 11 you want to install (e.g. Windows 11 Professional) and click “Next”.
On the “Where do you want to install Windows?” screen, you will see the current unallocated space on the SSD.

5. If the SSD already has partitions (e.g. leftovers from an old system), select each partition and click “Delete” until all space becomes “Unallocated”.

6. Click “New”, enter the primary partition size (e.g. 50000 MB ≈ 50 GB) and click “Apply”. The system will create it automatically. System reserved partition (about 100 MB, to store boot files). Primary partition (i.e. C drive, for system installation). The remaining unallocated space can be partitioned later in the system using the “Disk Management” tool.

7. Select the newly created primary partition (e.g. “Drive 0 Partition 2”) and click “Format” (default NTFS file system).

8. Confirm and click “Next” to start clean installing Windows 11 on new computer.