

Many thanks to leepspvideo for bringing this simpler method to our attention. No Windows machines are required to do this! The original method was complex and convoluted, but thanks to WoR member Botspot we now have a largely automated install process that runs completely from the Raspberry Pi 4. The Windows on Raspberry Pi community never sleeps and we’ve just seen their work on installing Windows 11 onto a SSD using nothing more than the Raspberry Pi 4.

Installing Windows 11 the Simple Way Via a Raspberry Pi 4 Please complete those steps before moving on. The process to do this is detailed in our How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 / 400 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive. This worked the first time, and the added bonus is that our Pi is kept cool.īefore using Windows 11 on the Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD, we first need to ensure that the firmware and bootloader of our Raspberry Pi 4 is set to the latest version so that we can boot from USB 3. So we opted to use an Argon M.2 case which has a built in USB 3 to SATA board.

After discussing the issue with YouTuber leepspvideo, it turned out that our USB 3 caddy was to blame. The images were successfully written to the drive, and they did indeed boot, but they failed at the device discovery portion of the setup.
