I have one. I kept getting a screen for a raid driver during boot up. Drove my strange ocd crazy lol so i took it out. Guess its headed back in 😆

Yes they are plain sata. I have a cable w/ bracket that has sata to esata, so i installed it.

Guess i will have to make a decision on leaving the drives in the tower or keeping the enclosure on...

Well that makes sense then. I wonder with they even put an esata plug on the 4 bay emclosure then.

4 bay external enclosure (non raid) - connected via esata cable to sata port on mobo.
win 10 19042.631 64bit
asus Z87-a mobo
drivers up to date
Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2
AHCI in bios
...

I was running a win 7 vm and was having an issue with a device and wanted to try native to rule out the vm being the issue. I ended up just using an old laptop to confirm it wasnt the vm. Thank you...

So what can i do differently? Win 7 wont complete the setup, its hung on the windows loading screen.
I prefer to have uefi dual boot.

Yes its on win 10, gpt & uefi. I found out the long hard way this wont work with 7.

My win 7 sticks at the windows startup screen. Ideas?