Windows 10: Adding or removing new, unrelated drives makes boot drive unable to start

I just recently got a second m.2 nvme drive and because of that, 4 of my SATA ports no longer function. So I’ve had to reorganize my SATA drives so the ones I want stay active, but every single time I’ve disconnected and reconnected the drives, my boot drive (the new nvme) didn’t boot. It goes to the bios where the boot order shows that the drive is still registered and active but no matter what I do, it won’t boot.

Every time this has happened (5 or 6 times), I’ve had to reinstall Windows. In the installation, it shows that the drive is there and that it has information on it so I know that Windows is still on there, but it just won’t boot it up. Since I haven’t really installed anything, it’s not that big of a deal now but next month I’m buying a new ssd and I don’t want to have to reinstall Windows all over again and risk losing all my stuff again.

Why is this happening and how do I fix it?

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