Used Dell Latitude with Windows 11

[Mark Fuller]

I bought a used Dell latitude 3190 with windows 11. I tried to uprade the internal ssd hdd with a new one but the w11 media creation tool says that this pc does not meet the minimum requirements for w11. I bought it from Amazon and it seems to run w11 quite well. I looked up the specs and it also says it will not upgrade to w11. It came from Amazon with w11 and like I say runs well. I wonder what gives, how can it run 11 unless they came up with one of those unautorzed hacks to make to do so and would Amazon do such a thing without letting me know.

 

[Gabriel Pike]

They used flyoobe to bypass windows 11 upgrade restrictions.

 

[mahoneycutt]

A disk cloning program like Macrium Reflect or True Image should clone your old drive to the new drive. Neither program involves Microsoft so it should just work.

Pro Tip: Be 100% sure about the source drive (old) and the destination drive (new) during the cloning process. If you are not careful and reverse the drives, you will wipeout the old drive with the new (blank) drive.

 

[Mark Fuller]

A disk cloning program like Macrium Reflect or True Image should clone your old drive to the new drive. Neither program involves Microsoft so it should just work.

Pro Tip: Be 100% sure about the source drive (old) and the destination drive (new) during the cloning process. If you are not careful and reverse the drives, you will wipeout the old drive with the new (blank) drive.

They used flyoobe to bypass windows 11 upgrade restrictions.

Thank you so much. Do I need to be concerned legal issues since I bought It from Amazon? It seems to work really well and would there be anything to worry about as far as operating is concerned?

 

[Gabriel Pike]

The only thing that will happen is if there is a modern program that requires an instruction set that the hardware does not have, that part of an application will not work. Everything else should function as intended. I have tested this on multiple Dell systems. If you have the service tag you should be able to get an install image from Dell to reinstall Win 10 then use flyoobe to upgrade to Win 11. I do this at least once a week for my actual job.

 

[Mark Fuller]

I see thank you.

 

[Mark Fuller]

Can I clone the present contents of the hdd I have in the pc to a USB flash drive and then copy it to a new installed hdd?

 

[Gabriel Pike]

Can I clone the present contents of the hdd I have in the pc to a USB flash drive and then copy it to a new installed hdd?

You can clone it to a usb drive not a usb stick. I have done this with an external drive caddy then swapped drives after.

 

[Mark Fuller]

I have a usb flash stick 32gb and a sd card reader with various sd cards, will either work? I also have a usb dvdrw.

 

[Mark Fuller]

You can clone it to a usb drive not a usb stick. I have done this with an external drive caddy then swapped drives after.

I have a usb sd card reader, usb flash stick and a usb external dvdrw.

 

[Gabriel Pike]

I have a usb sd card reader, usb flash stick and a usb external dvdrw.

I don't think any of those will work for what you are trying to achieve.
I have a USB to NVMe and USB to SATA connectors that I use to do this.

 

[Mark Fuller]

OK, I think you are right.

 

[Mark Fuller]

I cloned the drive with a NVME caddy but the os came with w10 and the pc doesn't recognize the ssd after cloning.

 

[Mark Fuller]

I bought a new 512gb ssd to format with w10 but the windows 10 installation media doesn't regognize the new hdd.

 

[Gabriel Pike]

I would try this if it is a new drive:

Download and Create Windows Recovery Image | Dell US

 

[Mark Fuller]

It doesn't work I think because the original os was w10 and it now has w11 that was bootlegged so to speak.