[rafaelm]

I'm no windows fanboy and I don't doubt your experience, but I honestly don't understand how this can happen. I recently did three clean Win 11 reinstalls and I was done in an hour. Maybe because I did it on slightly older hardware...

[bsder]

How? The install was just sitting there and there was literally nothing I could do while it just ground and ground.

I'd love to know what to do differently in case I have to do this again.