hello, welcome to Dntech4u blog today In this blog post, I will tell you how to install Windows 11 on 2 hard drives at the same time
***Pre Required***
- 2 Hard Disk Drive or SSD Drive
- Windows 11 Boot USB Drive
This way helps the Windows operating system run on both hard drives, without any problem.
so if any course one of the hard drives fails, it won't affect the computer's operating system.
Your data is safe even if one of the hard drives fails.Windows operating system and data are made two identical copies
I prepared a USB stick to install Windows 11 so I changed the boot order from the BIOS to USB memory.
We Recommend You to use two different hard drives for this purpose
Next you press the F11 key to configure RAIDd.In this example
I use a 256GB solid state drive and a traditional 500GB normal hard drive.There are several different types of RAID configurations
but in this post I will show you how to configure them to create two identical copies on two hard drives.
If you plug in more than two hard drives.Then you need to choose the right one for next step.
As you can see the asus motherboard automatically detects the two hard drives I have installed
You can also choose to configure it to increase the speed, but that will not be safe for your data when either hard drive fails.
So I choose mirror mode,Because we only install two hard drives.In that way We can only configure RAID 1
Remember that when you configure RAID all the data on your two hard drives is lost.So if you have data on your hard drive, you need to back it up before configuring RAID.
Since I have plug in the Windows 11 installation USB into the target computer, the Windows installation screen will appear as above.
Windows 11 operating system will be installed on both hard drives simultaneously
The installation steps are the same as that if you were installing on a computer with a single hard drive attached.
I will go to the next steps to install Windows 11 so you don't have to wait long.
When using, you only see the appearance of a single hard drive with a capacity equal to the capacity of the smaller hard drive
Windows 11 operating system has been installed, when I check the hard drive, there is only one hard drive
But when accessing the BIOS of the ASUS motherboard and checking the storage configuration, two hard drives appear
When one of these two hard drives is damaged, your computer will still work normally, Windows 11 will work normally And no data will be lost.
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