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XanderHart
Aug 15, 2025Iron Contributor
New hard drive installation of Windows 11 prompts
The solid-state drive is new, the system is from the official website, and I used the official USB drive to boot up and install Windows 11. When searching for the hard drive, this prompt appeared. Wh...
DaxxonFoster
Dec 15, 2025Iron Contributor
To install Windows 11 on a new hard drive, you must enable UEFI boot and Secure Boot in the BIOS and use the GPT partitioning scheme.