Do you want to use Windows 11 without installing it on your PC? Tiny11’s developer creates a bootable Windows 11 live DVD called Live11 to load Windows 11 into RAM. To know more information about this Windows 11 live disk, continue reading and MiniTool will give you a simple guide.
As is well known, Microsoft releases high system requirements to Windows 11, especially the PC must have enabled TPM2.0 chip, which makes many old PCs incompatible with this operating system. To let people use Windows 11 on low-end computers, some developers always devote themselves to launching a lite edition of Windows 11 and Tiny11 is an example, which can run on a PC with only 2GB of RAM.
Recently, the developers of Tiny11, NTDev, also releases a new feature called Live11 – a tiny live disk that can be used to boot Windows 11 from a USB drive or DVD. Move to the next part for an overview of Live11.
What Is Live11 Created by Tiny11 Developer
In general, Live11 is an optimized Tiny11 image that can run completely on RAM and it is designed to fit on a 4GB virtual hard drive (VHD). Although the image uses 4GB of RAM, Live11 has a limit – 8GB of RAM is required to load the Windows 11 operating system.
NTDev offers a disk image (4.4GB) to the Internet Archive and the size fits within the DVD with 4.7GB of capacity. That is, Live11 can be the first bootable Windows 11 live DVD you can get. Like other Windows live CD/DVD/USB, you can burn the ISO file of Live11 to a USB flash drive or micro SD card besides DVD to boot Windows 11, without installing anything on the PC.
After the boot, you get a brand new Windows 11 for many purposes like data recovery, troubleshooting, virus removal, and more. In addition, you can use Live11 as an emergency disk if the hard drive or SSD with an installed Windows is damaged and you want to access your PC.
Note that Live11 has some limitations if you want to try it:
- The current version can only work on devices that run on an MBR disk with Legacy BIOS mode. PCs with UEFI and GPT are not supported.
- Only VMware and Hyper-V work if you need to try Live11 on a virtual machine. VirtualBox is not supported since it keeps restarting after the “installing devices” phase.
- 8GB of RAM is required to load the system.
Windows 11 Live Disk Live11 Download & How to Run Windows 11 in RAM
How to get Live11 to run the Windows 11 system on your PC? It is very easy and let’s see a guide here on your virtual machine.
Step 1: Download Live11 from the website from Internet Archive – https://archive.org/details/live-11-mbr.
Step 2: Launch VMware or Hyper-V and then configure the VM to let it load the ISO image of Live11.
Step 3: Then you will see the following interface where only an option – Live11 is given.
Step 4: Then Windows 11 live disk will boot the operating system. During the process, you are required to choose a country/region, keyboard layout, and privacy settings. After that, you will enter the desktop of Windows 11 with the familiar blue flower wallpaper.
When you open File Explorer, you can see a C drive that only has 3.99GB of space which is a virtual drive on RAM. Only a few apps are preloaded. Due to the small disk size, it is easy to get filled up with temporary files. The ISO of Live11 comes with a portable version of Firefox and you can search for something via the web browser.
Since Windows 11 Live runs on RAM, all changes to the system will disappear after you shut down Live11.
Final Words
After reading this post, you know what Live11 is and how to download Live11 to run Windows 11 live DVD to have an experience with the operating system. It is read-only and not similar to the real operating system. It is just a Windows 11 live disk to run in RAM. If you want to try Windows 11 without installing anything, get the ISO image to have a shot.
To install Windows 11 on your PC, make sure the machine meets the high system requirements of this OS. Then, back up important files on the machine for a backup with MiniTool ShadowMaker. Next, start the installation by following the guide – How to Upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11? See a Detailed Guide.
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