Hello!
Not sure if this is the right place, so if there's a better, please let me know, but I have a Lenovo think center that I acquired that I want to use as a simple home server, got an i5 6700 in it, may need some tweaks, but should be good. My problem is it came from a now defunct company and it wants my corporate email to download the profile. This is after I tried to factory reset it and delete all of the items. When I turn it on it asks for my corporate email, when I try to type iny Hotmail it says it's wrong and gives me the option for a security key USB. I've downloaded the win 11 installer onto a flash drive, but it jus goes straight to the corporate login request. I can get to bios, but admittedly I'm not sure what to do from there, as I'm not seein the proper options.
Any suggestions on how to flash this so I can use it for Plex, Valheim, Minecraft, and personal storage would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I have a pair of hdds imma use for the storage, am I other thinking this and just need to toss the original hdd?
Where you able to boot to the windows installer when you plugged in the usb drive? If not, plug in the windows installer USB, go into BIOS and change the boot order so that the USB drive is first. This same advice applies if you're trying to install Linux from a USB.
I was able to change the boot order and install windows 11, however it just asked me for my corporate email for login to windows 11 -__-
Linux is probably your best bet. Alternatively, if you really want Windows, you could try installing a windows home edition, which can't join domains so might not work with whatever software is trying to provision it.
There's also this reddit solution which potentially is the fix you need. https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/1cmi3xe/comment/l33c7ln/
That worked! Thank you very much!