In the meantime I went ahead and installed Windows onto the new disk in the second slot and everything went fine.
I have attached a scree capture of Disk Management.
I have replaced the hard drive and swapped over the two SSDs and in starting the installation I can see 3 drives??
The new SSD is showing as drive 2 so I have selected this.
I'll let you know how it goes.
I have taken the hard drive out, placed it is a carriage and plugged it into another machine and it works. Problem is I see it contains Windows!!! I'm sure I chose drive 0 for the installation but I will have to do it again.
However, why is it I can only see 1 of the two SSDs?
In the screen capture \\I can see a 500GB drive. My hard drive is 500GB, but if this is the drive in question, why can I not see the two SDD in ) an 1?
I have no idea.
I simply asked someone at PCS if it was possible for me to use the spare slot for running Windows as I needed additional space, and if they could suggest a suitable SSD.
They supplied the INTEL one.
I asked if I should swop the SSDs to place the new one in slot 1 and was...
Actually - I have set the unallocated area as simple and formatted it assigning it a disk E which I can see.
It does provide me with 119 GB useable space so should I leave it as it is?
I bought the SSD from PCS
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Thankyou. Have now installed Windows on to the new Drive 2.
I have a couple of remining problems if you wouldn't mind helping me again.
Please see Disc Management screen capture below.
1 I can no longer see Disk 0 using File Explorer
2. I am left with two partitions on the drive which ideally...
Well it seems it wasn't such a naive question after all. Thank you for the clarification.
I've installed Windows before into a new machine, but please humour me further and check if I fully understand what to do i this case.
1. Disk Management shows my new drive as Disk 2.
2. There doesn't...