how to make a new System Reserved partition at the end of my HD

fdegrove said:

Hi,

Can you post us a screenshot of what disk management shows ?
Not sur if your current cpu is W11 compliant though.

Cheers,

Everything looks normal. I ran sfc.exe /scannow and dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, and everything came up clean. I booted to Windows RE from the lock screen by holding <Shift> while selecting Restart and browsed around the options; they were all there. Under Recovery > under Advanced Startup, click Restart now, it failed to come up past a blank screen. So, there are some low-level pointers or some such that are yet to be updated.

EDIT: Regarding Windows 11 "compliance," my computer apparently does not have TPM. If Windows 11 turns up its digital nose at my motherboard for lack of TPM or other reasons, then Windows 10 has perhaps five more years of support. My expectations are that I'll have a new computer in a year or two. If the current hardware has a future life past that point, it will be as a Linux number cruncher.

MORE EDIT: It seems that the "In-Place Upgrade" does not insist on TPM if Windows 10 is installed.