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I've never done it but at boot you should be able to choose from which drive you'd like to boot. You've got two drives and a usb stick with arch. Leave microsoft alone (remove, if you are afraid, and it's ok to be afraid. Once, I did overwrite something important) and boot from usb and select the other drive when installing the OS. Then you should've arch installed.
Then, you boot your computer and select the drive from which you'd like to boot (arch). Set the arch drive as your default drive that auto boots after x seconds
Good luck on your arch journey and take time to understand everything 💪🏻
That was what I expected to happen, as I selected my WD Black nvme to install Arch on (using archinstall because I didn't feel like doing it manually) and upon reboot (and removing flash drive with Arch install medium on it) it did boot to Arch initially, but it froze at initializing ramdisk.
Upon booting back into my BIOS, it showed the WD drive as bootable, but I left it alone and it still booted to Windows.
Funny enough, I have installed Arch on countless machines, laptops, that desktop before. But somehow BIOS doesn't see any of them as bootable anymore.
I quite love Arch, and I am currently using my Arch laptop to post this.
I think my next thing to try will be just removing the drive I have windows installed on and trying to install once more.
The last time I ran Arch on this desktop, I had too many issues with Nvidia drivers and wayland support, so I sort of gave up on it for a bit. Now that I have a bit more knowledge under my belt I planned to dive in head first and ditch the spyware we all know as windows.
I also remember fiddling with secure boot on the bios menu.