Windows 10: Windows will not boot unless Boot drive is the only drive connected

This is a follow up to problems that i was experienced in this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

I was able to get the problem fixed, but now it is occurring again. However, as i state in the title, windows will load if, and only if, the boot drive (a M2sata SSD is the ONLY drive connected to the PC. Windows will load up... and give me a blue screen of death in 10 minutes.

If I have 3 other 3.5 SATA hard drives are connected, windows will NOT detect the boot drive (Connected to my motherboard). I will not even be able to see the m2SATA drive in the BIOS. Only one of my other 3 drives.

I was able to run crystal disk and it says all my hard drives, including the boot drive are healthy.

Any thoughts on what could be causing this?

As far as a solution, i did create a USB boot drive, but it tells me it will overwrite the data on my system if i run it.... I’ve got hundreds of movies and TV shows saved on those hard drives, so i would hate to lose them.

Is the problem likely with my mSATA drive? Should i purchase a standard SSD and use my USB recovery drive to install windows on that?

I do not have anything on my current mSATA drive that is important.

Thanks!

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Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

Please move if this is in the wrong place.

I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.

 

Windows 10 boot drive

Is Windows 10 also limited to a max of 3Tb for a boot drive?

 

Maxtor Hard Drive Beep

Maxtor drive beeps

Have a similiar situation using a DiamondMax Plus 8, 20GB Mfg Date 4/15/03. Drive used as a second system drive. Drive is recognized in boot menu but not in drive list. Drive is always connected. Computer started locking up for several seconds at a time. Chkdsk on drives and couldn't find that drive. Removed drive from bay to make sure connections were ok and heard the beeping. Shutdown and restart and never got to windows screen. Restarted several times then saw drive in boot menu and Windows loaded but Maxtor not in drive menu. When recognized in boot menu, computer will start but beeps and is not found.

Tried kicking it real hard but no improvement. Any suggestions?