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Problem removing old harddisk because of vista boot manager

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System Name AlderLake
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I have 3 harddisks, all seagate, 1 (the oldest) harddisk (160gb) is very noisy, I'd like to remove this drive but there is a problem.. The vista boot manager is on that drive, so it needs that drive to boot!

Sometime ago I was running xp pro x64 on this old harddrive, from within windows x64 I have installed Vista on a new sata2 drive so Vista itself is running fast on the new drive..But it still needs the old drive to boot!

Is there anyway I would be able to fix this problem:

removing the old disk and making the new sata2 disk the bootable disk on which Vista is installed.

Thanks in advance for any help:)
 
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