Hi folks

I had a rare Windows problem that some might encounter with booting to Windows.

On an older computer I didn't need the SATA DVD drive so what I did I connected two SSD's via a spliter - I've enough SATA ports on the mobo so that was fine.

The two SSD's were a 500GB one and a 250 GB one -- the 250 GB one went through the DVD sata connector while the 500 GB one went through a spare Mobo Sata port.

I installed Windows on the 250 GB one -- wouldn't boot unless I put the boot loader on the 500GB one - then it worked fine. Linux didn't care but I suppose Windows seems to know from the hardware if its booting from "an external" device or an internal one. Until I switched the SSD ports around I was getting errors as well like "Inacessible boot device etc".

I swapped the SATA connections for the two SSD's and its working OK booting from the 250 GB SSD --- there's absolutely no problem power wise splitting the power from the DVD connector into 2 SSD's -- power drain on these is minimal !!!. I wanted the larger SSD for Linux and VM's .

I only found out about this when using GRUB while it was "searching for other OS's".

So if you do use the DVD port for SSD's on desktop type computers check that the SATA connector goes to a bootable SATA port on the MOBO that Windows can boot from !!!

Weird error --might not be applicable on all systems - but Windows really does throw hissy sissy fits at times !!!!!

Linux systems don't care BTW - you can boot from any device it finds a boot loader (GRUB) - even internal SD cards !!

Cheers
jimbo