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Download Git for Windows to get a copy of Git Bash.
Alternatively you can download MSYS2 or Cygwin.

How to troubleshoot BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

When windows encounters a BSOD, it will create a minidump (.dmp) file in C:\Windows\Minidump.
Copy out this dump file to somewhere like your desktop.
There are various software to open the minidump files such as WinDbg Preview and BlueScreenView,

How to use WinDbg preview

Wikipedia: hosts (file)
%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Reference
You should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.

It is a fake raid managed by the Intel driver.
It will not be recognized in Linux. It is better to use software RAID on both Windows and Linux.
- See the Archwiki RAID page
You typically run into problems when changing motherboards, and sometimes even just after updating the bios.
On consumer Intel boards (Z370, Z390), your M.2 slots are wired to your chipset which only has a PCIe x4 connction to your CPU.
- This means you won't receive a significant performance boost if you use RAID 0 on 2 higher-end NVMe SSDs.

Chocolatey is an open source package manager for windows.

Install Chocolatey by following the directions on https://chocolatey.org/install.

# Installs ffmpeg
choco install ffmpeg

# Upgrade all
choco upgrade all

# See installed packages
choco list --localonly

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 ==Blue Screen==
 How to troubleshoot BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).<br>
-* When windows encounters a BSOD, it will create a minidump (.dmp) file in
+* When windows encounters a BSOD, it will create a minidump (.dmp) file in <code>C:\Windows\Minidump</code>.<br>
-<code>C:\Windows\Minidump</code>.<br>
 * Copy out this dump file to somewhere like your desktop.<br>
 * There are various software to open the minidump files such as [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windbg-preview/9pgjgd53tn86 WinDbg Preview] and [https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html BlueScreenView],