Question Win 11 and TPM 2.0

[michael52]

I have a Kingwin universal hot swap mobile rack that allows me to use two separate bootable solid state drives on my tower PC. One is strictly for FSX flight sim and the other is for music/recording.

The PC is OFF when I swap drives so when I enable TPM 2.0 to upgrade to Windows 11 will I be able to swap drives without any issues?

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm wondering if there's likely to be an issue at all re TPM and more about secure boot? Is SB currently enabled and if so, does it handle the swap fine?

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I've multi-booted Windows 11 (and before that Windows 10) without issue.

Heck, I even use the same Windows license to activate all installs on the same system and because the hardware ID is the same, it doesn't complain.

I have done it both by leaving both drives in and using the UEFI boot menu and also by swapping/removing drives. Both approaches didn't seem to matter.

 

[tcsenter]

Unless they are encrypted or something TPM shouldn't matter.

 

[michael52]

I'm wondering if there's likely to be an issue at all re TPM and more about secure boot? Is SB currently enabled and if so, does it handle the swap fine?

secure boot is not enabled

 

[tecknot]

Hi Michael,

You should be fine leaving TPM 2.0 enabled for the dual boot machine.

Kind regards,

tecknot