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spectralwhite2020-03-11 15:20:44
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spectralwhite, 2020-03-11 15:20:44

EVO 970 Plus installed in Macbook Pro via adapter is displayed as External drive, how to fix it?

There is an AppleMacBook Pro 13 Retina (Early 2015) A1502.
With a native 128GB SSD, it also loads macOS Catalina and Windows 10 1909 installed on different partitions. With a native SSD, the boot manager shows two boot options with an HDD icon.

After installing a new 250GB Samsung EVO 970 Plus SSD through an adapter, it was necessary to reset the NVRAM \ PRAM memory parameters on the Macbook so that the SSD became a system one, without this procedure the SSD was displayed in the disk utility, the OS was installed on it, but after a reboot, the SSD did not displayed in the download manager.
The installation of macOS Catalina on the new SSD was successful and the OS works properly, but in addition to macOS, Windows is also required. With the new SSD, the boot manager shows a boot option with an external device icon.

The installation of Windows starts without failures, after the first reboot, the devices are installed and then for about a minute the message "Preparation is in progress" hangs, after which either the BSOD CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED crashes, or the message "Reboot" appears after which the same BSOD. On the native SSD, the inscription "Preparation in progress" took several seconds.

At first I thought that the partition with macOS was preventing Windows from loading, but a clean installation of Windows on a previously completely cleaned new SSD did not fix anything.
The same result from installing a clean Windows OS or Windows OS prepared by BootCamp.

I tried to clone the original SSD to a new one, where Windows works properly and boots without failures, it has all the necessary drivers and software installed. But after cloning Windows during the boot process, it gives out the BSOD INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

I noticed that on the original SSD, the OS choice was with the HDD icon, and on the new SSD, the icon of the external device. Maybe the fact is that Windows refuses to boot from a "supposedly" external drive? But I don't know how to fix it.
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In the macOS System Report, External Drive says "No". In system settings, external disk mode is disabled.

Two days of googling to no avail.

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Kohaki, 2020-10-01
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Same problem :( Did you find a solution?

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