Question Win11 upgrade not working. What am I missing?

[Pentacore]

My OS SSD HD crashed, restored a 4 month backup to a new drive. During that lost 4 months I upgraded to Win11 somehow, so now I'm trying once again to upgrade Win10 to Win11 as I did before. I remember using a tool from GitHub, Windows11Upgrade.exe, but it's not working this time. I also tried manually editing the registry with the DWORD values shown in the screenshot below, and STILL I'm told my CPU and TPM are blockers.

What's really irking me is how I was able to upgrade to Win11 before (my memory is horrible), and now it's not working. I really need this PC to be Win11 to resolve a bunch of issues with the Win10 install. That's why I forced the Win11 upgrade previously. Thanks for any help!

 

[WelshBloke]

Rufus is your friend.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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[Pentacore]

Rufus is your friend.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy way

rufus.ie

That did the trick, thank you. I was overlooking using Rufus because I had it in my mind Rufus only makes a bootable USB for a clean install and not an in place upgrade. I forgot I can just simply run the setup off the USB stick made by Rufus. I'm getting rusty in my old age. Thanks again!

 

[WelshBloke]

That did the trick, thank you. I was overlooking using Rufus because I had it in my mind Rufus only makes a bootable USB for a clean install and not an in place upgrade. I forgot I can just simply run the setup off the USB stick made by Rufus. I'm getting rusty in my old age. Thanks again!

I always forget about Rufus as I tend to use Ventoy with ISOs for all my OSs loaded into it but Rufus is my first point of call when things go wrong (usually with windows, there always seems to be something awkward about their bootable ISOs)