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June 17th, 2022 08:00
Precision 5820 - Secure Boot enabled - Can't boot to USB drive to install Win 11
I've been attempting to do a clean install of Windows 11 via USB drive on a Precision 5820 desktop.
The device is supported for Win 11 and passes all Microsoft PC Health Checks except for "Enable Secure Boot".
With Dell's proprietary BIOS/UEFI(v.2.19.1), when you enable Secure Boot there's no options to boot to the USB diskette anymore, only Windows Boot Manager. When rebooting, I press F12 to see the one-time boot menu, but the only option that is not greyed out is the Windows Boot Manager.
My other problem is that when my school districts IT department re-imaged my devices they used MBR instead of GPT for the volumes. This I can convert but it doesn't matter if I still can't boot to my USB drive.
So, how does one go about doing a clean install of Windows 11 via USB drive on this device?
...don't get me started with network deployment of Win 11 since WDS is now deprecated, that's a different can of worms.


JOcean
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June 17th, 2022 10:00
You are correct that you have to have GPT and UEFI boot mode. This web page at wintips may help. Without those changes you cannot enable Secure Boot.