Bedrock can run both windows 10 and windows 11, but we recommend to stick to windows 11.
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SolidRun recommends Windows 11 for Bedrock.
Windows 10 is also supported.
Preparing Installation Media
Download the windows 11 media creation tool
Insert an 8GB+ USB stick to your system
Launch windows media creation tool
Accept licence agreement:
Select edition and language:
Select USB flash drive:
Select your USB drive:
Wait for the process to finish, this might take a while depending on your USB drives speed.
When process is finished, you will see the following screen
Windows PE
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Environment
Boot into BIOS (insert power supply or reboot and press ‘DEL’ repetitively to enter the BIOS setup menu).
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In BIOS boot from the USB flash drive from the save & exit menu
When Windows installer boots select language and keyboard layout
Click on install now
If you have a product key type it and click next, if you dont click I don’t have a product key (you will be able to activate later)
Select which windows you want to install (your list can be different)
Accept licence agreement
Choose custom installation
In this case there is only one drive, and its not empty.
We need to clean it before we can install windows on it, we can see all 4 partitions belong to the same drive. (drive 0)
For each partition, click on it, and click on delete, to free the space of this partition after which, this partition will be displayed as Unallocated space.
In the end you want something like this:
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Click next
Wait for the installation process to finish
System will reboot
Windows
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Configuration
Once you boot into this screen you can disconnect your flash drive, select your region and press next
Select keyboard layout
If you want to add another keyboard layout, press Add leyout, otherwise click Skip
If you're connected to the internert, windows will check for updates
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