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I have a dual-boot system using two separate SSDs. One is my primary system on an M2 drive, and my secondary system is on a SATA drive that is in a removable bay. Most of the time I only need to have the M2 drive online and only occasionally I need the secondary system. If I unplug the removable drive and boot the computer, what will happen? I do not want to corrupt the boot manager or have to go into the BIOS settings to fool with the boot parameters. Likewise, if I later reattach the removable drive, will the boot manager and BIOS respond to both OS choices? Both OSs are Windows.

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  • Which device is the Bootloader on? What bootloader are you using? Which specific OSes are installed and on which drive? Have you done any research regarding this yourself? Commented Oct 7 at 13:09
  • The boot loader resides on system Disk 0. It contains a UEFI partition. I have Windows 10 installed on 'disk 0. My other disk is system Disk 1 and has Windows 11 installed. Disk 1 is installed in a removable drive bay. This is the disk I would like to remove and reinstall at a later time. I would think that with Disk 1 removed I should continue to see both Windows 10 and Windows 11 appear in the boot window. As long I don't try and boot into Windows 11 with Disk 1 removed, I would think nothing in the bootloader should change. Am I correct? Commented Oct 8 at 14:38
  • That info needs to be in your question. In general, we strongly encourage that you edit your question as often as necessary, adding information and clarity as appropriate. This is because a clear and complete question is one of the best ways to ensure a good answer, and edits as we ask your clarifying questions helps make your question better. Commented Oct 8 at 15:24
  • If you select boot disk through BIOS/UEFI, there should be no issue. Commented Oct 8 at 21:33

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