Can you dual boot two identical windows installations on separate drives on the same PC?

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Hello,I have ran into an issue recently after I added a NVME SSD into my PC and decided to reinstall windows on it to take advantage of faster read/write speeds compared to my previous OS installed on SATA SSD. I used the same copy of windows and the same windows key as the original. I really struggled to continue the installation as after launching it it restarts and then it would boot the old windows. I eventually disconnected the SATA, rebuilt bcd using command prompt and now I've got my new windows on my NVME. However, after reconnecting the SATA SSD it doesn't want to let me boot my old w

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