Windows 11 Pro Guide Installation on MiniBook X

Hi,

Hope this helps for those who want to do a clean install of Windows 11 with all working.
First big thanks to the Chuwi support team and the community.

  1. Started with getting the .iso image from oficial Windows page.
  2. Created the USB with rufus (works also with ventoy).
  3. Got the drivers from Chuwi giving my serial number.
  4. Booted from USB pressing F7.
  5. Normal installation procedure. At this step everting is in portrait mode, don’t panic. Now we have Windows 11 Home installed (how to get PRO at end).
  6. After installation moved manually to landscape for easy use. Right Click on desktop->Display setting->Display orientation.
  7. Install drivers from step 3. Right Click on the start button-> Device Manager->and under help you will find “Add drivers”. Select the entire unzipped folder and let it do its work.
  8. After install drivers reboot.
  9. Move back to landscape mode.
  10. Install grafics driver nowest version https://downloadmirror.intel.com/822645/gfx_win_101.5448.exe specific to this processor.
  11. Reboot.
  12. Connect to the internet and update Windows until there are no more updates.
  13. Check if automatic orientation work for me I did a toggle in Display Orientation until a saw it working normally.
  14. Update to Windows 11 PRO. Go to System->About-> Scroll down->Product key and activation->You should see Upgrade your edition of Windows-> Change product key-> Add the PRO license key.
    (there are sites that sell license key under 5 euros that’s how i got mine).
  15. Final reboot and you’re done.

Why do this?
There are some like me that want a clean install done by them. Also fixed some error that I had with out of the box OS that it came.

Hope it helps and will try to answer to other comment with all I can.
This is good MiniBook and love it. Next step that will try will be some debloating (this will increase the performance by a lot from what I read) and will come back with result.

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Thank you so much for giving this information

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This worked great! I tried updating to Win Pro from within the Win 11 home settings, but kept getting errors. The only thing I did differently here was reset the computer from the troubleshooting settings in UEFI (held shift down when clicking restart, selecting the reset windows/files) instead of downloading and creating a fresh install. The hiccups that may happen is that it has some bloatware from windows updating to Win 11 Pro, but there are a lot of options for removing that.

Also, I used this tool: Intel® Driver & Support Assistant to detect the GPU driver, as the link you shared throws out an XML error.

Otherwise, the advice here was great, and I appreciate it!

I am also really impressed with this laptop, I’m enjoying it thus far, and will enjoy it even more win 11 pro on it.

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What were the debloating steps?