These issues are the worst, because this SATA controller failure issue always began as an intermittent one, failing out of the blue, whenever it wants to fail, randomly. Needless to say, I will never buy another ASUS product again. I fix computers for people, and over the years there were 3 laptops whose SATA controller was faulty, all 3 were only a couple of years old and made by ASUS. I connected 4 different drives to it, including 2 new out of the box HDDs. It's definitely not the fault with the drive. I appreciate any ideas you guys could throw my way. Is there a way to somehow put it in (in place of DVD ROM for example)? Or is there perhaps a connector I can use to install an SSD/HDD in place of DVD ROM? Finally - if none of this is possible, can I enable boot from a USB drive, and install Windows 10 on the USB drive? What would be clear disadvantages of doing this? How badly would it impact the speed? What are my options (other than throwing it out or using it for parts)? It's otherwise a good laptop with Intel I7 CPU. Eventually it stopped functioning period. It was malfunctioning intermittently, and unplugging and plugging the separate PCB board that reads the drive from the main motherboard would sometimes make HDD visible again. I suspect that controller chip that reads SATA drives is fried. It has a problem that BIOS doesn't recognize any hard drives connected to the board.
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