Windows 10: Windows only boots when disk is plugged into SATA

I have a laptop with a single SATA port, so I am trying to boot windows 10 off an SSD connected through USB. When booting, automatic repair comes up and locks me out of windows. It throws me into recovery mode without any sign of an error.The drive works fine when connected with SATA. I have tested with a HDD connected through USB and it boots into windows fine. I reinstalled windows and yet it still doesn't boot.Any help would be appreciated as I have wasted enough time into troubleshooting this on my own. Thanks.

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What to Change to have a motherboard attached SSD be able to boot as a USB connected SATA disk

I have a Windows 10 disk from a computer. I plugged the disk into the USB port instead of the SATA port using a SATA to USB adapter, pressed F11 to get to the boot menu, selected the disk plugged into the USB port, and proceeded to boot. The result was the
error message INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE.





The disk works, of course, plugged into the SATA port. Plugged into other computers, booting up off the disk plugged into a USB port works.

I expect this behavior, as on a different computer Windows sees the configuration change (different motherboard, etc.), configures the new hardware configuration, and boots. When booting from the disk plugged into a USB port on the original computer, Windows
fails to adequately detect the new configuration and yields the INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error.

I presume that I would need to change something in the registry to either force a new hardware configuration scan on boot or more preferably to made whatever changes are required in the registry that will tell Windows that the boot device is a USB drive
now and not a SATA drive directly plugged into the motherboard.

Thoughts?

 

idle power consumption higher with SATA hot plug enabled

The idle power consumption of my ASUS B560 board increases from 9W to 16W as soon as I enable SATA hot plug for one port in BIOS. Unfortunately I would need this feature for several internal SATA devices (HDD swap racks, backup disks, etc.)

Any ideas to

• reduce idle consumption when SATA hot plug is enabled OR
• mount devices manually without that BIOS option? (devcon rescan is not sufficient)

Regards

Thomas

 

Error connecting SATA disk to Windows 10 using a SATA to USB harness

Tried running troubleshooter and restart as you suggested. I cannot allocate a Drive letter. Device Manager sees the device and driver ok. Says ASMT 2105 and says device is working properly. If I use Disk Manager it sees the device but says Dynamic Invalid.
It won't let me reactivate as it says it can't do this on an invalid Disk Pack. If I go to use Convert to Basic Disk it says I will loose data. This disk was the Disk 0 bootable disk for Windows 7. So it will have a boot sector and and a reserved section
etc. Then 2 main partitions. The first was the old partition mounted on C: as the OS 'disk'. The second partition was where I put some other data. I can't allocate a drive letter to this disk as I can't see any partitions. The driver is loading Ok.
But I am just not seeing this disk via the USB connection via the SATA cradle. Thanks for the suggestions but they don't solve the problem. The idea of the SATA saddle is so that I can connect SATA disks is necessary. I have looked in the Event Log but
cannot see anything obvisous. It also keep trying to do something with this disk/saddle. So something comes up and then disappears.