Cleaning Windows Notebook (a.k.a moving it to usb)

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Omarchy is made to use the whole drive and sometimes there is no 2nd drive slot on some notebooks or you want it to be on the Linux side too.

OTOH, you might not want to throw away the windows from the notebook. Either because you might have some need for it, or because you paid for it and other stuff inside it, or even because we want it for gaming.

That said, you can still use it from a USB case (e.g. nvme to usb-c) with good speed.

For this to happen you will need to tweak a register key:

HKLM\SYSTEM\HardwareConfig\{GUID}\BootDriverFlags

to 0x14 (hex).

This will the windows to load USB drivers on boot (CM_SERVICE_USB_DISK_BOOT_LOAD and CM_SERVICE_USB3_DISK_BOOT_LOAD). Without it you will probably get a BSOD.

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