Rufus 4.6 is the first alpha with which an inplace upgrade to Windows 11 24H2 is also possible

If you copy the ISO of Windows 11 24H2 with Rufus 4.5 onto a stick, you can without Problems reinstalling. You just have to tick the boxes as usual and Windows 11 24H2 will also be installed on older hardware.

Actually, this is not necessary for an inplace upgrade. The Windows 11 Installation Assistant with a trick is enough to upgrade to 24H2. But some still use Rufus for this. And that’s exactly what doesn’t work for an inplace upgrade. This will be corrected in the upcoming version 4.6 of Rufus. There is already an alpha version, 4.6.2200, which has integrated this change.

As Pete writes, “That with the next version of Rufus it will be possible to double-click setup.exe to perform in-place upgrades, as Rufus creates a setup.exe wrapper that applies the registry bypasses before running the original Microsoft setup will.” will.”

This means creating the stick as usual with Rufus and starting the setup.exe from the stick. The setup.exe wrapper is then started here, which then also installs Windows 11 24H2 as an inplace upgrade on old hardware.

It shouldn’t be long before 4.6 appears, even if there are still a few open things in the road map. If you need it urgently, you can download the alpha (MinGW), unzip it and start rufus.exe. In the alpha there is a warning before Rufus starts.

Thanks to Helmut for the tip.

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