Windows 11 Installed Windows 11 on new M.2 SSD while old SSD was plugged in | Attempting to fix it so it will boot without the old drive

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Hello! So as the title says, I was stupid and installed windows on an M.2 SSD while another drive was plugged in. Completely forgot to unplug it, but once I installed windows onto it it was using the old disks boot manager.So: when I unplugged it today to go ahead and try and wipe it, low and behold my drive doesn't boot. So now, I need to figure out how to allow it to boot off of my new drive without the old one so I can use the old one as storage / games storage as my current games hard drive is I've viewed a few answers before but I wasnt able to figure out the answers / they were for a dif

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