Windows 10: I was installing windows 11 on a second drive, and now my windows 10 drive will not boot...

I know the assumption will be that I installed on the wrong drive, but the windows 11 drive will show up with it's install, and I can see my windows 10 drive which is pretty full, when I go in through a recovery flash drive. But in recovery it is identifying the drive as windows 11, and startup repair will not work, as well as recovering from the recovery partition, as it says it cannot recognize it. I'm feeling as though I am screwed here and my data is lost, but if anyone knows any way to help, it would be incredible. Thank you.

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Windows 10 boot drive

Is Windows 10 also limited to a max of 3Tb for a boot drive?

 

Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

Please move if this is in the wrong place.

I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.

 

Windows 10 boot drive

Why do u even want a HDD/SSD that's 3TB for a operation system?