W11 24H2 Boot Crashes

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Been at it a few days.

Used to do slim ISO, made a windows 7 fully stable at under 1.8gb.

Have a windows 10 coming in at 4.5gb installed with most things working.

Can't figure out why windows 11 won't load past 5% or 10%.

Anyone got ideas?

Trying to make a "gaming" install with MS store support and get rid of old drivers not being used.

Also trying to disable defender completely in place of a different AC like mbam and panda av or something like that.

Edit, windows 11 pro home single language if that matters
 
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When you say 24H2 doesn't load past 5-10%, do you mean the Setup screen where it's copying files? Normally if it crashes at this point, your install image might be missing the right storage drivers.

For comparison, you can try installing a clean ISO and see if there's a difference in Setup getting past the 5-10% mark. If both ISO's don't make it, then you do need to add required drivers.
 
Yes, where setup starts to copy files for the install.

Clean ISO works fine.

Storage drivers were all checked for keeping?
 
When Setup is copying files, it's simply extracting them from the install image and at some point checks if the extracted image has newer (or "better") drivers than what boot.wim was running.

A newer Windows release might have a different set of drivers which conflict with the ones you've added. If the clean ISO works, then try not adding your existing storage drivers to the custom image, and allow Windows to use its own drivers.
 
Afaik I haven't added any drivers. Double checked just now from a clean 24H2 iso. It extracts and halts at 5%. I think somewhere in that laundry list something is needed for proper installation..
 
OK. Then you should add the same storage drivers to both boot.wim & install.wim.
 
I'm on mvme, just tried storage drivers still giving me hiccups. Do I need to update ntlite? Paid a few years ago and it's still for win10, could that be my issue?
 
This is simply a case of finding the right Intel RST drivers for 24H2. Your NTLite version is irrelevant for fixing this problem, though you should update to the current version anyway even if your license is expired.

If you can't locate the right drivers, the cheesy workaround is to enter BIOS and disable RAID mode, which turns your NVME into a generic AHCI storage device. You should be looking at the latest RST drivers for your PC or motherboard.
 
You nailed it! Dated Intel rst was the issue. Sometimes tweaking the final iso build wouldn't even show the nvme.

Curious, is the Intel rst needed even on a non-intel machine?
I appreciate all the help btw
 
cheesemonkey88 said:
Curious, is the Intel rst needed even on a non-intel machine?
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Intel largely owns the SATA or USB storage controller market, even for AMD-based motherboards. It's rare to find a non-Intel controller out there.

The really terrible thing is you can't just assume a later generation Intel driver (ie. RST 14 vs 13) is better. You have to carefully read the docs, or look for online feedback on which driver set works best for your specific motherboard.

Dude, you're running a copy of NTLite from May 2021. Upgrade to the latest version, so NTLite can correctly report you're loading a 24H2 image.
Many newer features will be blocked by your expired license, but at least it would be much easier to debug future issues.
 
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