Customised Windows 11 ISO bootability check

[Qhien505]

Recently, I created a customised windows 11 iso file and load it to my bootable usb. Then I tried to install that version of windows 11 on to my friend's laptop. Everything was fine until the step where it say "installing windows 11; Your pc will restart several times. This might take a while'. From then onwards, every single time the process reach 77%, an hourglass flashed on my cursor and the percentage stuck at said number for a while.
Then the process just skipped to the part where it says 'your will restart now' and proceeded to restart the laptop. The thing is, it kept restarting and shutting down in a loop, so i tried to boot the iso again from scratch and remove the created partitions from the previous session. This took me back to the 77% point as said above, and l am basically stuck in a never ending loop at that moment.
So, I'm gonna post the preset of my windows 11 iso here to see if there is any problem about the bootability of my iso file and to see whether the problem belongs to my iso file or my friend's glitchy laptop.
I would sincerely appreciate it if you could take my problem into consideration

 

[garlin]

When the same ISO works on your PC, but not for another PC, usually the problem is missing or the wrong drivers. Every Windows release has a default set of drivers, some of them might work for you and not for someone else.

Check if your friend's PC works with a clean ISO. If that fails too, then it's the same problem. You have not removed anything from this preset which should break installation.

 

[Qhien505]

When the same ISO works on your PC, but not for another PC, usually the problem is missing or the wrong drivers. Every Windows release has a default set of drivers, some of them might work for you and not for someone else.

Check if your friend's PC works with a clean ISO. If that fails too, then it's the same problem. You have not removed anything from this preset which should break installation.

Thank you! Im glad to hear that my preset wasn't at fault. But how can I counteract the missing or wrong drivers problem when installing windows 11 on another computer of mine or any computer in the future?

 

[garlin]

Find the your PC's or motherboard's support page, and download all the driver sets. Some drivers will be in EXE format, but you can try and see if they unzip successfully. Other EXE's you will have run once to extract the files to a local folder.

Load the image in NTLite, and from the Drivers page, Add / Directory containing drivers to import the whole folder.

On the Apply page, click to expand Reapply tasks across editions.
Look for Integrate - Drivers. Check the boxes for boot.wim WinPE (Setup), which is usually image 2. This adds the same drivers to Setup.

If you have multiple Windows editions, you can check them together to add the same drivers to the selected editions.

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[Qhien505]

Find the your PC's or motherboard's support page, and download all the driver sets. Some drivers will be in EXE format, but you can try and see if they unzip successfully. Other EXE's you will have run once to extract the files to a local folder.

Load the image in NTLite, and from the Drivers page, Add / Directory containing drivers to import the whole folder.

On the Apply page, click to expand Reapply tasks across editions.
Look for Integrate - Drivers. Check the boxes for boot.wim WinPE (Setup), which is usually image 2. This adds the same drivers to Setup.

If you have multiple Windows editions, you can check them together to add the same drivers to the selected editions.

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So anytime im trying to install this windows 11 version on any pc or laptop, i have to find their motherboard info and do the whole process you said before actually booting the iso?

 

[garlin]

It depends on the PC. Every Windows release has a set of included drivers, which slowly changes over time. MS tries to anticipate which HW components are the most popular and should be supported. Sometimes you have a much newer (or older) PC and the driver is not available.

Try a Windows install with a clean ISO. If it doesn't work, then see if adding drivers will help. The biggest problem tends to be storage drivers, for both the USB controller (to read the ISO from the flash drive), or the SATA/RAID controller. A major issue is Windows reboots itself and tries to load what it believes is a "better matching" driver, and then it doesn't work any more.

If you install the expected drivers to the image, you improve the odds for a successful install.

 

[Qhien505]

It depends on the PC. Every Windows release has a set of included drivers, which slowly changes over time. MS tries to anticipate which HW components are the most popular and should be supported. Sometimes you have a much newer (or older) PC and the driver is not available.

Try a Windows install with a clean ISO. If it doesn't work, then see if adding drivers will help. The biggest problem tends to be storage drivers, for both the USB controller (to read the ISO from the flash drive), or the SATA/RAID controller. A major issue is Windows reboots itself and tries to load what it believes is a "better matching" driver, and then it doesn't work any more.

If you install the expected drivers to the image, you improve the odds for a successful install.

Thank you for the explanation!