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Please can anyone help with this SATA drive locking out BIOS problem?

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Steve_E007

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I had a working system - AIMB-274 motherboard, Windows 10 and Seagate 500G laptop drive to boot from. 16G memory.

It died - the disk became corrupt. I had a clone which I replaced it with but got in a mess trying to get it going again. Short story, the PSU had leaking capacitors and the voltages were dodgy. Might well have been the reason the the disk corruption? Now have new PSU - plus an infuriating problem that is driving me NUTS.

I can boot the PC from a USB stick - I can also boot from a cloned disk I made some time ago, but it is very out of date. If I put in a new disk (I have a few thin laptop drives of the same type, plus a couple of Barracudas, all 500G) and using recovery software I can restore from a backup onto one of these disks. I have done this several times.

Here's the problem:
One disk (only) which is the old clone that is out of date, boots ok to Windows 10. Any other disk, if connected to the motherboard in any SATA port stops me from entering BIOS. It just...

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