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So you're saying I can pull an SSD with a working Windows 10 installation from another computer and plug it into a GNU/Linux system running systemd-boot and it will boot Windows 10? (Ignoring any potential driver issues that may arise from the difference in hardware and [most likely] violating the Microsoft EULA)

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I am not sure why you would want to start with an install of windows from a different machine, but yes booting to a different hard drive has been supported for a long time.

You just chainload to the windows boot manager on the other disk, I think that if you point bootctl at the new disk it will even add an appropriate entry for you automatically.

> You just chainload to the windows boot manager on the other disk

Isn't this impossible with bitlocker?

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