GX740 Optical Bay Hard Drive issue

So a bit of bad news good news here.

Bad news first:

The system hangs at bootup with my other HDD installed, just like when it was used as a USB external.
I thought it was because it was FAT32 before first, so I formatted it and it's now NTFS but still hangs.
I think the issue is that it tries to use it as a boot drive from the BIOS (BIOS recognizes my eSATA and two SATA drives).
When I go select the boot order it only has the Samsung drive (the new one from my old USB external) as a possible HDD option.
The only way I can let it boot up is if I manually choose the boot device.


Anyone have a fix for this?

Second and most annoying: I cannot remove this thing! It seems like it's stuck somewhere when I'm trying to pull it out.
I can get as far as detaching it from the SATA port inside the laptop but then a little bit after that it gets stuck.
I'm guessing it's one of the mounting screws...
So anyone have an idea about how to get it out? Maybe disassemble the entire thing? I've tried pulling really hard on it and it's just not coming out.

Okay now the good news.
The drive works well when I'm inside Windows.
Everything is recognized and the speed isn't bad.
CrystalDiskMark reported 73.13 seq read and 68.89 seq write.
Pretty decent for a 5400RPM I guess...