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07-04-2026, 11:20 AM

Hello, I'm not sure if this fits right in my area. But it's important! My computer has an MSI motherboard with a M.2 NVMe drive: two Samsung EVO 970s at 512GB each for a total of 1TB. It also has an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti. I want to set up dual-booting my Windows 11 and Linux (like Arch, OpenSUSE, or Debian) on the same system using one NVMe drive as the main OS and the other two drives for Linux. Could someone tell me how to do this?

samnicholas34

07-04-2026, 11:20 AM #1

xIsoxGaming
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07-06-2026, 12:37 PM

Option 2 has every operating system on a separate hard disk, so there is no special combining technology called RAID 0 used here at all.

xIsoxGaming

07-06-2026, 12:37 PM #2

Option 2 has every operating system on a separate hard disk, so there is no special combining technology called RAID 0 used here at all.

zMadeus
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07-06-2026, 04:21 PM

No raid is fine, thanks a lot for that! 😊 But what would you do if the second NVMe drive disappears right when I switch off the raid? I don't really understand why that happens.

zMadeus

07-06-2026, 04:21 PM #3

No raid is fine, thanks a lot for that! 😊 But what would you do if the second NVMe drive disappears right when I switch off the raid? I don't really understand why that happens.

Soccerdude2006
Junior Member

07-06-2026, 08:44 PM

Put one hard drive in. Put the operating system on it. Take it out and put the second hard drive in there instead. Then start up with the second system. All set.

Soccerdude2006

07-06-2026, 08:44 PM #4

Put one hard drive in. Put the operating system on it. Take it out and put the second hard drive in there instead. Then start up with the second system. All set.