Mint on M2 SSD... generalized Win7 on SATA SSD. Need bootloader help

I built a completely new machine and installed Linux Mint to the M.2 drive.

On my old machine, I used the Sysprep Generalize utility on Win7. This basically removes the hardware configuration information from the image and allows it to be moved to a new computer and boot. I plugged it in as a boot drive to the new machine and successfully migrated the installation.

What exactly do I need to do to make these two drives play nice? Windows seems to get quite pissed off if all I do is boot UEFI and manually select boot from the Windows SSD. I also don't want the file systems walking over each other.

I believe that all you really need to do now is set up grub to boot to mint and windows now. normally all you should have to do is load up mint and run the "update-grub" command and it should find the windows drive. if it doesn't, there is a way to manually add it to the grub.

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