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Hello fellow tech nerds I need some assistance. My PC recently had some crashes and ended up dying on me.
 

There’s hope yet, my wife’s PC! With an RX 6650XT and an AMD 5600x it’s a 1080p monster.
 

Now to my questions, her PC has two M.2 Slots and 1 is occupied by her main storage and OS (Windows 11), I was wondering if it was possible to put MY 2TB M.2 that has my OS (also Win 11). I want to create a sort of Dual Windows PC with 2 of the same OS. Is this even possible? The plan is to upgrade her PC with my 3080 but use two different storage systems, one for her and one for me. I think this will be an amazing project for us to work on (we build our PCs together so it’s a hobby we both enjoy); but I have no idea where to even begin or again if it’s even possible, I was hoping someone in this forum has done this or can help. 
 

Any suggestions will go a long way and I hope to be able to accomplish this and share it with everyone here. 

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13 minutes ago, DylanLopez said:

Hello fellow tech nerds I need some assistance. My PC recently had some crashes and ended up dying on me.
 

There’s hope yet, my wife’s PC! With an RX 6650XT and an AMD 5600x it’s a 1080p monster.
 

Now to my questions, her PC has two M.2 Slots and 1 is occupied by her main storage and OS (Windows 11), I was wondering if it was possible to put MY 2TB M.2 that has my OS (also Win 11). I want to create a sort of Dual Windows PC with 2 of the same OS. Is this even possible? The plan is to upgrade her PC with my 3080 but use two different storage systems, one for her and one for me. I think this will be an amazing project for us to work on (we build our PCs together so it’s a hobby we both enjoy); but I have no idea where to even begin or again if it’s even possible, I was hoping someone in this forum has done this or can help. 
 

Any suggestions will go a long way and I hope to be able to accomplish this and share it with everyone here. 

Yes as said above. You can dual boot 2 seperate windows 11 or windows 10/11 and so forth. It's a good idea to share hardware. 🙂

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7 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yup you can do that. Then you can use the mobo boot menu to select the drive to boot from.

 

But why not make different accounts. Then you each have your own environment to use.

We’re using two separate profiles right now on the same OS. I just think it’ll be a ton of fun for both of us to work on this. We’d like to separate our office again some we have an extra room. 

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