Windows 10: Windows 10 won't boot after adding second drive

Recently, I transferred the hard drive from my laptop to my PC to use as a second drive. Now, when I try to turn the PC on, it won't boot. In order for me to boot the PC, I need to remove the second drive, turn of the PC then after it is fully booted, plug the second drive in.


Drive 1: SSD with Windows 10 OS


Drive 2: HDD for other files


Both drives are internal, connected using SATA cables.


What I did:


1.Turn on PC

2. Plug in second drive after it booted

3. Formatted the second drive to remove operating system.

4. Turned off PC

5. Turned on PC, but it wouldn't boot

6. Turned off PC and unplugged second drive

7. Turned on PC and it successfully booted

8. Plugged in second drive, enabling me to access the drive


How do I fix this, so that I don't have to unplug the second drive every time I want to start my computer?

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I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

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