Win11 problems when installing on Siwft x

minadaoud
minadaoud Member Posts: 3 New User
I just got my new laptop (Swift X) and I am struggling with installing OS in general
first I installed elementary os and it has many problems.
then I tried to install Win11 in different ways and when it's boot it tells me this error

this system uses 64-bit x86 uefi searching for x64 efi bootloader
launching "efi\boot\bootx64.efi"...
load failure 3 unsupported

Please help, I need to install win11 asap, because of my work

Answers

  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    How have you made the install media? That sounds like the drive has not formatted correctly. Make sure to do a full format  (not a quick) then install the installer to it using the meida tool :)
  • minadaoud
    minadaoud Member Posts: 3 New User
    Leostat said:
    How have you made the install media? That sounds like the drive has not formatted correctly. Make sure to do a full format  (not a quick) then install the installer to it using the meida tool :)
    I formated with Rufus, but I had chosen the default setting and I believe the default setting has quick format checked
    I will try to format again without it
  • minadaoud
    minadaoud Member Posts: 3 New User
    Leostat said:
    How have you made the install media? That sounds like the drive has not formatted correctly. Make sure to do a full format  (not a quick) then install the installer to it using the meida tool :)
    also, I want to mention is that the USB works great with another laptop and boots normally and shows windows installer page as usual
  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    i would just use the media creation toolkit, some laptops can be funny with random things which is why ms now just does the tool!
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,944 Trailblazer
    ElementaryOS tweaks the EFI loader which makes it difficult to install a different OS. Boot to the BIOS and verify both the F12 boot menu is enabled and Secure Boot is disabled then use the boot menu to start the Windows installer flash drive. When you get to the screen where it asks which partition to install on, manually delete everything that is there and install to the unallocated space. The installer will then recreate all needed partitions, including the EFI partition, without any of the ElementaryOS stuff.
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  • Callistemon
    Callistemon Member Posts: 106 Skilled Fixer WiFi Icon
    I formated with Rufus, but I had chosen the default setting and I believe the default setting has quick format checked
    The formatting type is for the HDD where Windows will be installed, not the pen drive with the Windows installer, so the pen drive doesn't need quick format disabled. Disabling quick format on the HDD won't do anything either, as overwriting sectors has no effect on Windows installation. By completely formatting, this was supposed to mean formatting away all partitions (the full disk, as opposed to a filesystem within). The solution to the issue is to delete all partitions on that HDD before proceeding (and convert to GPT as below).
    i would just use the media creation toolkit, some laptops can be funny with random things which is why ms now just does the tool!

    Rufus is superior. It's much more common to have errors with Media Creation Tool. Microsoft's tool doesn't even support GPT mode, despite GPT being the preferred partitioning scheme for anything booting with UEFI mode. Switching to Rufus usually fixes errors from installers created with MCT.

    When you get to the screen where it asks which partition to install on, manually delete everything that is there and install to the unallocated space. The installer will then recreate all needed partitions, including the EFI partition, without any of the ElementaryOS stuff.

    Yes, deleting all partitions from the HDD is part of it. The other part is to convert the HDD to GPT style before installing Windows on the unallocated space. This can be done by pressing Shift + F10 and inputting


    diskpart
    list disk
    select disk #
    convert gpt
    exit


    Replace # with the HDD number where Windows is being installed. Selecting a wrong disk number may result in data destruction.