Please complete those steps before moving on. The process to do this is detailed in our How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 / 400 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive. This worked the first time, and the added bonus is that our Pi is kept cool.īefore using Windows 11 on the Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD, we first need to ensure that the firmware and bootloader of our Raspberry Pi 4 is set to the latest version so that we can boot from USB 3. So we opted to use an Argon M.2 case which has a built in USB 3 to SATA board. After discussing the issue with YouTuber leepspvideo, it turned out that our USB 3 caddy was to blame. The images were successfully written to the drive, and they did indeed boot, but they failed at the device discovery portion of the setup. Keyboard, mouse, HDMI and power for your Raspberry PiĬonfiguring Raspberry Pi to boot off of SSDįor our install we chose to use an SSD via a USB3 caddy with USB boot enabled on the Pi.Bluetooth dongle (if you want Bluetooth).Windows 10 PC (if you are following the longer method).
Best for performance or 16GB or larger microSD card, (see best microSD cards for Raspberry Pi) What you will need to install Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4
