The easier way is to hook up the new drive to your PC, create a bootable USB drive with Windows 10 ISO file, boot the second drive from this installation disk, and then install Windows 10 in that way. Additionally, it may also cause an OS conflict when you have both drives connected to the PC. It's also more time-consuming and requires the help of a disk cloning utility. In addition, backups are always good to have, especially where important data is concerned.ĭo you know how to install Windows 10 on a second SSD or hard drive ? The typical way is to clone your entire drive or take a system image but that might cause issues like duplication of data, etc. That's why we need an secondary SSD or hard drive to imporve the performance. However, things has changed dramatically in recent years and one hard drive is not enough for daily routine. It was a standard in the past where web was still not popular. Usually, there is only one hard drive on old PCs or laptops.