Windows 10 Want to remove extra hard drive but pc wont boot without it

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I have an nvme boot drive and a hard drive for storage. I want to change the hard drive to a larger ssd for more/faster storage. I as far as I can tell, I moved/deleted everything off of the hardrive except for a folder named windowsapps that i cannot access, so i just copied it.When booting up after swaping the storage devices I was greeted with a message about how I need to check my boot device order or something to that effect. When i swap back to the hard drive it boots fine. Keeping the hard drive in my computer is not an option I am too keen on, as i have a small and already somewhat cra

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