I installed a 2nd hard drive and now my mac wants to startup on that drive. How do I switch startup drives?

I installed a second hard drive to my Mac Mini. After installing the operation system on it the mac will boot up on the second hard drive. How do switch back to the first drive?
Thank you.

No reason to. I always a cloned copy of my operating systems so I can reclone it back in case the the one I use dies.

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mdfpaf, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Did you place the jumper(s) on the 2nd drive to designate it as Slave. Since it's recognized, you probably did.
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Here are Seagate's instructions: How To Install and Troubleshoot Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drives in a Macintosh
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