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Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?
Do you mean your Windows boot partition?
Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.
The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.
You're gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.
It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been
Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?