Windows 11 is now available to the masses but what if the software you use
doesn't support it what if it's buggy or what if something goes wrong with the
update process and borks your whole computer
don't fret because we're going to show you guys the proper process to perform
the free upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 including backing up all of
your data and with the help of acronis and their cyber protect software we're
going to show you how you can update temporarily with the ability to
completely undo it if you don't like the results
i mean what could go wrong
before we can even think about running Windows 11 we're going to need a system to install it on so to stand in for your
average home computer we've got Jake's test bench it's nothing crazy 16 core
ryzen 9 59 50x 32 gigs of 3600 mega
transfer tridensy zeneo memory a 2080 ti and a two terabyte NVMe SSD okay it's a
little crazy but you know Jake
he doesn't settle
nothing but the best for Jake look the important part is that we've
got some critical documents okay we've got some family photos we've got some
programs on here and we don't want to lose any of it okay we've got some
family photos here none of these people are my family are
these just are these just talk family photos or something
royalty free excellent uh oh uh oh got
the nudes
i love your cat
now fooling around in order to install Windows 11 we need to make sure our pc
supports tpm 2.0 microsoft's new hardware security requirement what is
tpm well in short it's a hardware device
that provides the system with a safe and dependable place to execute
cryptographic functions like for disk encryption or for safe boot to check if
your pc supports it microsoft has a handy little tool called the pc health
check tpm 2.0 must be supported and enabled on
this pc more about enabling tpm 2.0
according to this our system supports all the other requirements so it's just
a matter of figuring out if and how we can enable tpm 2.0
to find out if we have support for it we could google it but we are going to just
go straight into our BIOS by going into the recovery menu and clicking restart
now under advanced startup from here we click troubleshoot
advanced options
ua5 firmware settings you can also just restart your pc
normally and mash the delete key or whichever key it is to get into your
motherboard's ui5 BIOS but this way you don't have to worry about missing this
prompt it'll go straight in there the setting we're looking for here is called
ftpm on most ryzen boards and it's usually in the advanced menu on Intel
platforms it's usually under advanced then trusted compute or trusted platform
module and we were pretty darn sure we were going to find it here because all
ryzen cpus past first gen do support tpm
2.0 and the same is true for Intel platforms past 7th gen so let's go ahead
and
yay ah
no this is for when a new CPU is installed
let's go ahead and just do that window update we got our system we
verified it's compatible we just go ahead and
okay this is actually not a problem we just need to check for updates again oh
my god it totally doesn't go away but this is exactly the kind of thing that
gives people anxiety about performing a major update like this i mean even going
from Windows 10 to a different version of Windows 10 there have been situations
where people have ended up with a bricked install so they gotta put all
their applications on again which is a real pain in the butt or even worse than
that a complete loss of data so it is
always recommended that you back up your data before performing any kind of major
operating system upgrade like this one especially if it's done by a company
that can't seem to synchronize pc health check results with the Windows
updates i mean it's not exactly confidence inspiring is it this is where
acronis comes into play since the last time they did a sponsored
video with us some things have changed what used to be a kronos true image
their backup software is now a cronus cyber protect home office so no more
paying for antivirus from one company back up from another company it's
everything backups antivirus malware protection
all in one right away when we jump in we're presented with the backup menu
which is exactly what we're looking for the software gives you a ton of
customization options you can backup the entire system a specific disk a specific
folder heck you can even cryptographically certify backups kind
of like a notary would certify a document in real life for our purposes
we want to make a complete backup of the system so if for whatever reason we
decide we want to go back to Windows 10 or even migrate our install to a
different machine or to a virtual machine in case we wanted to go back and
grab stuff but we probably won't need it we can do that you can see here we've
already set up a backup to acronis's cloud service and i'm just going to go ahead and synchronize it they include
500 gigs of storage with the advanced tier and a terabyte with the premium
tier so we'll be making use of that you don't have to use the cloud storage
though you can back up to an external drive a nas a separate partition on your
system drive if you have extra space or all four if you want now that our disk
scan is complete you can see it's synchronizing all the changes that we've made since we last backed up that's
really important because if it was doing a full upload every single time you
would absolutely destroy the data cap on your internet connection
so this is only going to take a couple of minutes here of course if you don't want to worry about data caps or you're
impatient the fastest way to back up is to an external drive that particular one
is a gen 4 NVMe SSD plugged into a usb 3
10 gig port so this should be pretty darn quick let's go ahead and add a
backup change destination
volume d and let's go to options
exclusions and we do not care about backing up our steam games folder for
example so we're not gonna bother with that you know what
okay this is a total weird edge case but
there are particular games you may actually want to back up for example
with beadsaber sometimes they roll updates that break all my mods and so
it's nice to have my mods and stuff all backed up exclusions can be handled in a
handful of ways for example by default it doesn't backup.tmp files because
they're by definition temporary and then we're going to go ahead and select our
common path because realistically if something goes catastrophically wrong we
will just download our games again oh acronis survival kit allows you to
restore your data even if your os fails
special partition that's bootable oh cool okay yes
yeah i think i understand so basically it's just a bootable partition on your
backup that allows you to restore your entire os without needing to reinstall
it that's awesome one small bug we found is that if you create a survival kit and
then try to back up right away without restarting the software it gets a little
bit confused because it just created a new partition on that drive uh we've let
acronis know and they're going to fix it though there we are now we're ready now
we're not going to get too deep into the options menu here because if you're a
power user there are a ton of different knobs and dials that you can twist
according to your liking we're going to go with the default weekly schedule but
i mean you can tell it hey upon shutdown
for example run a backup super cool we're just going to go ahead
and put our exclusion back in here we really do not want to wait around for
that to back up and then under advanced we're going to go to backup protection
and we're going to encrypt the drive because it costs us basically nothing
and it means that nobody else is able to poke around in our backup where you're
going to use aes 256 encryption
this is wow that's a lot faster than uh
backing up to the internet it's going at two and a half gigabit per second now
that the backup's complete we can see the file on the drive and as long as we
remember our password open it up and browse it
so if there's anything that we wanted to grab and carry over to our new install
even if we decide we are sticking with Windows 11 we could absolutely do that
like these NVIDIA display drivers for example
very important i'm glad we included these unfortunately Windows update is still
not offering us the upgrade but that's actually good because it gives us an
opportunity to show you guys the workaround if you have a tpm 2.0 and
otherwise compatible system and for whatever reason you're not able to get
the update through Windows update just search for the Windows 11 installation
assistant and download that
it's like imagine being the team whose job it is is to clean up the mess of the
Windows update team right like you create this entire tool
with this entire team of people just because those other tools and that team
couldn't make their tool i know i know i know i know but if you
the point is if you want to have a button to say force check for it it should just be in Windows update
this is going to take a bit but while we wait let's talk about what happens if
you don't have a tpm 2.0 enabled processor well your first option is to
ignore microsoft's recommendations and install Windows 11 anyway
using the official iso which is available on microsoft's website you can
actually bypass the requirements as long as you are doing a fresh install it's
worth noting that microsoft does not support or endorse this method so you're
on your own if anything goes wrong another option is you may actually be
able to install an add-on physical tpm
on supported motherboards this would mean that you would meet the tpm 2.0
requirement but it doesn't necessarily mean that your CPU would magically be
supported so we'd recommend doing your own research here finally you can always
just do nothing Windows 10 is going to be supported by microsoft all the way
until october 2025 so you have nearly half a decade to upgrade to a compatible
system down the line or switch to Linux you know like me get
subscribed so you don't miss that series of videos one fun little hack see how
it's going way faster now if you type delivery optimization into the start
menu you can pull up this settings page where you can allow downloads from other
pcs nearby not necessarily even on your local network and it'll just go like
way faster and here it is
Windows 11. now to be clear under normal circumstances i always recommend a fresh
install but the subject of the video was how to
upgrade right now
it's working on it
yeah with the 16 core CPU don't worry Windows 11
fast it should be noted microsoft does have
their own backup solution built into Windows it's just that
it's i don't know if you don't have anything
nice to say don't say anything at all the best part is after all that
we get to sit through this now what was it doing the whole time
obviously the first thing you do when you get a new window set up including a
big upgrade like this one is make sure you've got all the latest drivers particularly for ryzen processors AMD
actually released check this out today a
chipset driver update that fixes a scheduler issue that was causing ryzen
cpus to uh not have very good performance in
Windows 11. and we've landed we got that new sexy center start menu if you're
into that sort of thing i gotta say the muscle memory is
gonna kill me on this one wow it actually like has some idea what you
might actually be looking for okay do you have team viewer on here because if
i search for teams it'll t-e-a-m-s on my computer
upstairs it'll find team viewer instead
okay this is awesome yeah immediately i mean
i was expecting it to work because basically Windows 11 is a Windows 10
update on like roids but
it worked that's great now let's show this okay this is cool so
if you hover over the maximize button you actually get all these different
options for how you want to maximize you can be like oh i want to put it here
and then maybe i'm going to put this one here and we're going to put this one here
cool right but can you do like diet you
can yeah i clicked the two buttons and it
went to a corner okay
that just changed my life oh auto HDR
that's what we wanted to do okay so let's use HDR
and then let's hope yeah it doesn't look like absolute poo poo the second we do
that which is great auto HDR here
we go nope that's definitely working in a
window you can see it dimmed everything around it
yep and let's just watch something that's not an HDR
and it looks very normal wow okay
oh this is huge when i'm duplicating my display because man i have had some
situations where i'm duplicating my display for some reason and then
notification comes up and it's like confidential information from like
microsoft teams speaking of microsoft teams this is really dumb
if you click the sign in button and then you enter your work account
it just tells you your password is wrong which is not a useful error see i'll
show you here we go ready that's definitely the right password
your account or password is incorrect if you don't remember your password reset
it now but that's not actually what you need to do what you need to do is get
microsoft teams work or school that's right the integrated microsoft teams is
not the other more different microsoft teams
that you need for your work account so you know what then let's say i'm so
angry about that that in spite of all the coolness and i'm definitely going to
upgrade to Windows 11. in spite of all the coolness i hate it i want to go back
to Windows 10. let's show that so we'll pull up our
acronis cyber protect home office and
let's go find our backup here let's jump over to the recovery tab
entire pc recovery this action is irreversible all current data including
documents and applications will be removed okay do you want me do you want me to back it up then
okay yeah fine we'll back it up that way if Jake needs to get any not destroyed
screen cap he can do that with this install that's actually interesting i
wonder how smart it's going to be like is it going
to go oh this is a different os and create a completely new backup or is it
going to go oh i recognize a lot of this and just do an incremental backup now
it's time to head over to the recovery pane so we're going to recover our
entire pc rather than just files which we could also do or partitions or disks
nope entire pc and we're going to choose the version
from 11 28 am and recover now this is irreversible all
current data documents and applications will be removed and changed by data of
the chosen backup alrighty then here we go let's restart acronis not
free obviously but if you're a techie who's performing upgrades for people and
stuff like that man could this ever save you a big old
headache like because you never know right what
if you lose power in the middle of applying an update like stuff happens
even if it's not microsoft's fault we're back everything works
jumping right into our right into our gaming here the rocket league executable is missing
because we didn't back up our steam games you
know what it doesn't matter the point is we were able to quickly and easily
restore our Windows 10 installation like with a couple of clicks and that takes a
ton of the anxiety and guesswork out of a big move like changing your operating
system so huge shout out to acronis cyber protect home office is a pretty
sweet product we're gonna have it linked down below thanks for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if
you enjoyed the video maybe check out the time we deliberately installed
ransomware that was also sponsored by acronis and was a lot of fun