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Precision 3630 not booting after adding second SATA drive
Hi!
I have a Precision 3630 with Win10 on mSATA (256GB) and ODD pre-installed.
I then added a SATA HDD (1,5TB) as additional storage - works like a charm, but full already...
I now added an additional SATA SSD (1TB) and suddenly the Tower stops booting.
It goes into BSoD after power-on, Diagnostics, auto repair reboot and Loop complets with another BSoD...
After powering off and detaching the SSD, system goes to auto-repair again but boots and i can log in (although severeal apps don't work anymore and need reinstall, e.g. teams - reproducable.
Not sure, if the tower somehow tries to combine the mSATA (256Gb) and the SSD (1TB) to a RAID since RAID is the fault config in BIOS....
I suspected the MBR GPT of the SSD and cleaned it with diskpart (currently no partitiontable at all on the ssd), I tried different SAT-ports and another SSD - nothing works - system falls into boot loop until I remove the additional drive from the SATA port.
How can I tell the System to simply add the SSD as additional disk like the SATA-HDD?
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Posted September 12th, 2021 05:00
well, what do you see in the bios ? how are the hdds showing there without the ssd added, and then with it added ?
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Posted September 14th, 2021 22:00
Hello, enter the bios and make sure that your Windows boot drive has priority in the boot order. As soon as a sata drive is installed the bios set it as 1st boot drive, at least it happend to me with an usb sata external drive. To be on the safe site, just disable your new drive as boot drive (take off the tick).
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