Windows 10: Windows 11 Home Clean Installation - From Pen Drive media - Not able to see Hard Drive to...

I am doing a Clean Windows 11 Home Installation from Pen Drive – But not able to see Hard Drive to Proceed furtherFyi - Please find below the steps that I followed.I am in process of reinstalling Clean Windows 11 Home in my Laptop. Initially this Laptop came with the same Windows 11 Home when I brought it a year ago.Downloaded the Installation Media into my Pen Drive.Started Installing fresh Windows using Pen Drive.During the process it was not showing my Hard Drive to install Windows.Went to Acer Drivers download website.Provided my SNID number.It opened the drivers for my Laptop Model Acer A

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Windows 11 OS back up in a pen drive/external hard drive

Recently my HP all in one desk top touch PC has been upgraded to Windows 11 OS. Could anyone please let me know step by step procedure as to how to make a copy of Windows 11 OS in a pen drive or external hard drive for my future back up purposes.

Thanks,

Balakrishnan.

 

Windows 10 clean install and hard drive partition

I figured out what needs to be done in the situation I had posted:

1. If you have an official version Windows 7/ Windows 8, you are entitled to a free official version of Windows 10 until July 29, 2016.
   
   If you want the official version, you must upgrade via the upgrade provided by Windows. This will not be a clean installation but will be an install nevertheless. Your device will be registered with Windows as official for Windows 10.
   
   If you want a clean install, skip to point 3.
   
2. If you want to do a clean install, you can easily do it after completing step 1. All you need to do is ensure that your computer has been registered with windows 10 and then you are good to go for a clean installation.
   
3. Download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. It asks you if you wish to install or create installation media. I created installation media on a 4GB pen drive.
   
   Then I downloaded Windows 10 again. I believe you could copy (I didn't try it so don't know how it works, but if downloading isn't going to be big issue for you, you could do it again).
   
   Then I restarted my PC in bootloader mode while keeping my pendrive attached. Then I had to change my boot order for me to be able to use my pen-drive as an installation media.
   
   It is very easy to perform a clean installation after that. Just walk through the steps. Selecting the option "Nothing" will help you do a clean install.
   
   You could look up for all steps for Media Creation Tool as well as clean installation.
   
   You could look up for changing your boot order.
   
4. The partition part, I believe, works same as on other versions.
   
5. The lags are still there, but with updates, they are reducing. So I believe I need to give it time.
   

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How to Unlock Drive in Windows 10: 5 Ways to Remove a Lock