Installing Windows on Bedrock R7000

SolidRun recommends Windows 11 for Bedrock.

Windows 10 is also supported.

Preparing Installation Media

• Download the windows 11 media creation tool

• Insert an 8GB+ USB stick to your system

• Launch windows media creation tool

• Accept licence agreement:

• Select edition and language:

• Select USB flash drive:

• Select your USB drive:

• Wait for the process to finish, this might take a while depending on your USB drives speed.

• When process is finished, you will see the following screen

Windows PE Environment

• Boot into BIOS (insert power supply or reboot and press ‘DEL’ repetitively to enter the BIOS setup menu).

If you have problems with installation, please disable secure boot in BIOS → boot> security → secure boot-> disable

• In BIOS boot from the USB flash drive from the save & exit menu

• When Windows installer boots select language and keyboard layout

• Click on install now

• If you have a product key type it and click next, if you dont click I don’t have a product key (you will be able to activate later)

• Select which windows you want to install (your list can be different)

• Accept licence agreement

• Choose custom installation

• In this case there is only one drive, and its not empty.

  • We need to clean it before we can install windows on it, we can see all 4 partitions belong to the same drive. (drive 0)

  • For each partition, click on it, and click on delete, to free the space of this partition after which, this partition will be displayed as Unallocated space.

  • In the end you want something like this:

If you have multiple drives, make sure you select and clean the correct one, cleaning the wrong drive will probably lead to data loss.

• Click next

• Wait for the installation process to finish

• System will reboot

Windows Configuration

• Once you boot into this screen you can disconnect your flash drive, select your region and press next

• Select keyboard layout

• If you want to add another keyboard layout, press Add leyout, otherwise click Skip

• If you're connected to the internert, windows will check for updates

Intels i226-IT drivers are not installed by default so you will have to use wifi or a USB → ethernet adapter to be able to update at this point.

• Name your device or skip this step

• Select the usage of this device

• Now you will need to sign in to your Microsoft account

If you dont want to Sign in, you can choose Sign in options → Offline account

• If you skipped Microsoft will explain what is a Microsoft account, you can just skip it

• Set up the users name and press Next

• Choose password, if you dont want a password, just leave empty and press Next

• Choose privacy settings for your device

We recommend turning everything OFF for minimal collection of your data

• Wait while Windows gets things ready for you.