No. Use rufus mbr mode. Old computer.

Dont use Uefi OR GPT.
It will then boot. If you still have dificulties use rufus v3.1

i never even bothered with that part when using rufus

select the iso

select the usb

start it and select which options you want as it goes through the install

edit:tpm and ms account

worked fine very time

引用自 Numlock587：

No. Use rufus mbr mode. Old computer.

Dont use Uefi OR GPT.
It will then boot. If you still have dificulties use rufus v3.1

Thanks, but I did. I guess I will have to try the older version. But will that work with the newest Win11 iso 25H2?

引用自 13119205187913161：

i never even bothered with that part when using rufus

select the iso

select the usb

start it and select which options you want as it goes through the install

edit:tpm and ms account

worked fine very time

I see no way to avoid the format.

The MS Media Creation Tool works in a specific non advanced options sort of way.

For example if I were to create the usb won10 or 11 on an old PC that is using legacy BIOS. This is how the usb will be created by said tool and will not boot on UEFI and use GPT. Or vice versa if make it on a modern PC when it is using UEFI mode, this is how the USB will be created and thus won't boot on PCs with Legacy BIOS

Rufus on the other hand allows you to choose this yourself. So for example if modern PC with UEFI is all I have available I can still make the USB for legacy BIOS to be used on customers old Laptops or legacy BIOS Desktops, as per the options that Rufus has available.

Rufus chooses NTFS because the iso size is larger than 4GB .

this may help , Rufus 3.21 supports splitting
Partition scheme: GPT
Target system: UEFI
When you click Start ,Rufus will ask you to split it .You should choose to split it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBVSTNNAgo

Thanks for the replies :)

UPDATE: I could not figure out how to get the Rufus Win11 USB stick to boot on the old PC. Even when I created the bootable USB on the old PC. So, I put the drive I want to use into my new PC. I still chose MBR and create additional partitions for legacy when making the bootable USB. I installed Win11 onto the drive while in my new PC. Then I put that drive into my old PC. It is working. So far. I learned a long time ago that Windows is good when moving a boot drive to new hardware. It uses it's default drivers and they work. Then it goes out and gets the real drivers. Magic, I tells ya.

So The Win11 looks to be working OK. The Mommyboard is an ASRock H77Pro4MVP with i5-2500. I don't know if the bios is UEFI or not. I think not. But it is working. With a local account and no MS account.

Now I have to install programs and see if it will work and be stable. Then I will buy a cheap OEM license to activate it. This PC used a cheat to activate back in Win7 and it still upgraded to 10 with no problem.