CaseySJ
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I removed NVMe and try to install Win 11 on one of my SATA HD. Same issue, unable to reboot at the end of the 1st stage.
I suspected my USB key preparation to be maybe wrong and did another one with a different method following that "tutorial" (Terminal OSX part, not presales software). All went smoothly.
While rebooting, I noticed on the BIOS menu that I get 2 EFI on the USB key, only one leading to the install Windows menu.
The 2nd EFI proposed drive me again to the OC menu.
Unfortunately booting on the correct EFI leads to the same conclusion: Failed to prepare the reboot at the end of the 1st installation stage.
Do you remember having 2 EFI booting form your Win11 USB install key or not?
I don't have any other idea yet...
All I can tell you is that I followed a specific guide (link in my previous reply) to create a Windows 11 USB install disk (with full Windows 11 ISO Image downloaded on it). It took a long time to create the USB install disk. I used a good quality Samsung Bar Plus 32GB flash disk that has 200 MB/s read speed.
I installed Windows on a 2.5" SATA SSD with both of my macOS NVMe SSDs plugged in. I did this on my AMD Ryzen-based Gigabyte B550 Vision D running BIOS F13 that has the latest TPM firmware.
Result: Windows 11 got installed with not a single problem during or after. There is actually no EFI partition on the USB install disk. Instead, it has a FAT32 partition with the EFI boot loader, and a separate NTFS partition with the Windows installer.
In your case it might be best to try installing the latest Gigabyte Z490 Vision D firmware (BIOS) and to enable Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT).