Problem with Dell Workstation New Hard Drives wont Upgrade to Windows 11

[robbo]

I have got a Dell 7820 workstation. The hard drives are only 6 months old. Its got Windows 10 currently installed on it. I am trying to upgrade to Windows 11 but it blue screens with a astore error. Anyone else had similar problems upgrading to Windows 11.

 

[mervyn]

call dell and they will sort it out. i am surprised that it doesn't come with 11 already in the hdd

 

[robbo]

The hard drives are 6 months old but the machine is a few years old now. So the Dell warranty has expired.

 

[Scataphagos]

I have got a Dell 7820 workstation. The hard drives are only 6 months old. Its got Windows 10 currently installed on it. I am trying to upgrade to Windows 11 but it blue screens with a astore error. Anyone else had similar problems upgrading to Windows 11.

Whenever changing OS on a drive, I always do a "low level format" before installing the new OS. Apparently you need the "low level" variety to format the 1st track. If you don't do low level and merely format, you'll likely not erase/overwrite the old 1st track... then you'll have W11 trying to install on what is effectively still a W10 drive(?).

 

[robbo]

Whenever changing OS on a drive, I always do a "low level format" before installing the new OS. Apparently you need the "low level" variety to format the 1st track. If you don't do low level and merely format, you'll likely not erase/overwrite the old 1st track... then you'll have W11 trying to install on what is effectively still a W10 drive(?).

Before I tried to install Windows 11. I ran the microsoft healthcheck and the only thing I needed to do was upgrade the TPM from TPM 1.2 to TPM 2.0. Do you think this could be causing a problem.

 

[SunTrader]

Might be Processor is not supported. Best to check with Dell as mervyn recommended.

 

[robbo]

Might be Processor is not supported. Best to check with Dell as mervyn recommended.

I will check with Dell but when I ran the Microsoft Health Check it said the processor was okay. The processor was powerful when I purchased it. Intel Xeon Gold 6154 18 Core 3.00GHZ.

 

[mervyn]

nvme is cheap these day, only few weeks until july 4th sales.

 

[robbo]

nvme is cheap these day, only few weeks until july 4th sales.

I was looking at the cost of NVME today and it has certainly got cheaper. Might be a good idea to buy a new NVME and do a fresh install on it.

 

[d08]

If you don't do low level and merely format, you'll likely not erase/overwrite the old 1st track

There are no "tracks" on harddrives. What you mean probably is that there are other partitions still left, so of course you need to wipe all partitions with boot loaders.