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First off I guess reading emails sent to my phone when someone replies has caused me to miss multiple posts to the thread. I apologize to everyone who is posting here.
1) I removed the active flag on Drive I: (old drive U: before reordering drive letters), I didn't realize that there was another drive other than the old Win 7 (used to be L:) that had an active flag which I removed from the computer.
2) Bios has been in AHCI mode all along
3) The drive in question has been G: WD1GIGSAT now on disk 2
4) I have not had a problem with G: disappearing since unplugging my Samsung ext HDD on PCI USB 3.0 card
5) The reason the my SSD Boot drive is not on SATA_0 is because it's on GSATA3_6/7 (SATA 6Gb/s Connectors, Controlled by Marvell 9128). The other SATA controllers are 3Gb/s connectors. I don't know if it matters.
6) Drive G: is already backed up.
7) Should I just let the system run with the ext drives connected to see if any drives disappear as maybe removing the active flag from drive I: fixed the problem?