How to Install Windows 11 on New PC? See a Guide!

Windows 11 now is popular with many users all over the world and maybe you also plan to switch to it. Since Microsoft offers high Windows 11 system requirements, some of you choose to purchase a new high-end PC or build a new PC by yourself rather than installing Windows 11 on the old PC.

The new machine may come with an operating system or not include an OS. In this post, we will show you how to install Windows 11 on a new PC in these two situations.

How to Install Windows 11 on New PC with an OS

Sometimes the new computer comes with Windows 11 but the edition is not the one you want, then you decide to reinstall Windows 11. Or sometimes Windows 10 is installed on your new PC but you want to install Windows 11.

For the second case, you need to check the machine to see if it meets the system requirements. To do this thing, run the PC Health Check app. To know details, refer to our related post – Compatibility Test: How to Check if Your PC Can Run Windows 11.

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After making sure Windows 11 is compatible with your new PC, let’s see how to install Windows 11 on new PC from a USB flash drive.

Move 1: Create Windows 11 Installation Media

To install Windows 11 from USB on a new PC, the first thing you can do is to prepare a Windows 11 installation media. Follow the steps below.

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Step 1: Prepare a USB drive with at least 8GB and make sure the internet is connected.

Step 2: In a web browser, visit the Windows 11 download page.

Step 3: Scroll down to the Create Windows 11 Installation Media section. Next, tap on the Download Now button to get Windows 11 Media Creation Tool. This tool can help make a bootable USB drive to perform a reinstall or clean install of Windows 11 on a new or used PC.

Step 4: Run this free tool by double-clicking on the .exe file. Then, accept notices and license terms.

Step 5: Choose a language and system edition.

Step 6: Check the box of USB flash drive and click Next.

Step 7: Select your USB drive and Media Creation Tool will start downloading Windows 11.

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Move 2: Boot New PC from Bootable USB Drive

After getting a bootable USB drive of Windows 11, how to install Windows 11 on new PC? The second thing is to boot the machine from this drive.

Step 1: Connect the USB flash drive to your new PC.

Step 2: Boot the Windows system and then press a key to enter BIOS. Which key you should press? This varies depending on different manufacturers. Usually, the common keys are: HP – F10, Dell – F2 or F12, Lenovo – F2, Fn+ F2, F1 or Enter followed by F1, Acer – F2 or Del, Asus – F9, F10 or Del, Samsung – F2, etc.

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Step 3: In the BIOS menu, go to find the boot options menu or a similar one, and then choose the USB drive as the first boot order. Then, the PC will boot to the installation screen.

Move 3: Install Windows 11 on New PC

After booting the PC from the created bootable USB drive, now it’s time to install Windows 11 on new PC.

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Step 1: On the Windows setup screen, configure your preferences including language, time and currency format, and keyboard method.

Step 2: Hit on the Install now button to go on.

Step 3: Tap on I don’t have a product key.

Step 4: Choose an edition like Windows 11 Pro to go on. If you are in Europe, choose the N edition like Home Pro, Pro N, Education N, etc.

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Step 5: After accepting notices and license terms, tap on Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).

Step 6: Choose where you want to install Windows 11. Then, the installation process starts.

After finishing the installation, you need to set up Windows 11 out-of-box experience (OOBE). Just follow the on-screen instructions, including choosing your region and keyboard layout, naming your new PC, adding your account, setting up a PIN, configuring privacy settings, and more.

That’s how to install Windows 11 from USB on new PC. If you don’t have a USB drive, how to install Windows 11 on a new PC with an operating system? The operations are simple. You can download an ISO file of Windows 11 from Microsoft, mount it to a virtual drive and then double-click on the setup.exe file to install Windows 11. To know details, refer to this post – How to Install Windows 11 Using an ISO File on Your Computer.

How to Install Windows 11 on New PC Without Operating System

If you purchase or build a new PC without installing an operating system, how can you install Windows 11 on it? The operations are not complicated and let’s see the instructions below.

Step 1: You also need to prepare a bootable USB flash drive. To do this thing, go to a working PC and run Media Creation Tool or Rufus for this task.

Step 2: Boot the PC, go to the BIOS menu (the key to enter BIOS is mentioned in the above part), and then boot the new PC from the USB drive.

Step 3: Then, begin the installation by following the Windows setup instructions.

These steps are mentioned above and follow them to install Windows 11 on your new PC.

Note that it is a little troublesome to check the PC specifications of the new PC that doesn’t have an operating system. Usually, if you plan to install Windows 11 and prepare a PC, the machine should meet system requirements.

But it doesn’t matter if you don’t make sure of this. If it doesn’t meet the high requirements, the Windows 11 setup will show you a message saying this PC can’t run Windows 11 during the installation. You can press Shift + F10 to open Command Prompt, type regedit, and press Enter to open Windows Registry for editing.

Go to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup, right-click on the Setup item, choose New > Key, and name it LabConfig. Then, right-click on the empty space and choose DWORD (32-bit) Value, then create new values – BypassTPMCheck, BypassCPUCheck, BypassRAMCheck, and BypassSecureBootCheck. Double-click on each to set the value data to 1.

How to Install Windows 11 on New PC via Disk Cloning/OS Migration

In addition to installing 11 on new PC without/with an OS via a clean installation, you can choose an easy way to do this thing and that is to perform a disk cloning or system migration. Via professional Windows 11 hard drive cloning software, you can easily transfer Windows 11 from a hard drive to another hard drive of the new PC. In this way, you won’t install the operating system, set up Windows 11, and install many apps.

How to migrate Windows 11 to a new PC? MiniTool software – MiniTool ShadowMaker and MiniTool Partition Wizard comes to help you a lot. Before running one tool, prepare something:

• A running Windows 11 computer
• Remove the internal disk from your new PC and connect it to the Windows 11 PC.

Run MiniTool ShadowMaker

MiniTool ShadowMaker is not only free backup software for Windows 11/10/8/7 but also disk cloning software. With its Clone Disk feature, you can easily clone the system disk and data disk to another hard drive like an external disk, SSD, HDD, etc. This tool currently doesn’t allow you to perform a system clone.

With this tool, you can free clone Windows 11 disk to the disk of your new PC. Then, you can delete data partitions and re-create partitions for data storage. If you are interested in it, get MiniTool ShadowMaker to have a try.

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See how to install Windows 11 on a new PC via disk cloning:

Step 1: Double-click on this installed tool and run it to the main interface.

Step 2: Move to Tools in the left pane and click Clone Disk to continue.

Step 3: Choose the system disk of the Windows 11 PC as the source drive. Then, select the new PC’s hard drive as the target disk. Next, click Start.

Step 4: MiniTool ShadowMaker begins cloning. Wait some time. After that, shut down the PC, remove the target drive and connect it to your new PC. Then, boot the PC from the cloned hard drive.

Note that the new PC sometimes cannot boot from the cloned hard drive due to the dissimilar hardware between the Windows 11 PC and the new PC. To fix the incompatibility issue, we strongly recommend using MiniTool ShadowMaker to perform a fix via its Universal Restore feature.

This feature is included in MiniTool ShadowMaker Bootable Edition – you can run the trial edition, go to Tools > Media Builder to create a bootable USB drive, and then boot the new PC from the drive to enter the MiniTool recovery environment. Then, run MiniTool ShadowMaker and enter its Tools page. Next, tap on Universal Restore and choose your operating system to restore.

Run MiniTool Partition Wizard

If you only want to migrate the OS to another hard drive of the new PC, you can run this partition manager. MiniTool Partition Wizard offers a feature called Migrate OS to SSD/HD Wizard that enables you to migrate the system disk to another hard drive or only transfer the operating system to another disk. This feature is paid and you need to get MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro or higher.

To know details on system migration, refer to this related article – Easily Migrate Windows 10/11 to SSD Without Reinstalling OS Now. After finishing the migration, you need to perform a universal restore with MiniTool ShadowMaker to fix the incompatibility issue due to different PC hardware.

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Final Words

How to install Windows 11 on a new PC? After reading this post, you know how to install Windows 11 on new PC without operating system/with OS – from a bootable USB drive or via disk cloning/OS migration. Choose the proper way based on your situation.