Windows 10: Like to install small SSD alongside large SATA 3.5" Hard Disk

Okay - bit of a 'noob' question here, hope folks can help.

My desktop machine (5 y.o.) is getting an upgrade.

I would like to follow the suggestions that have been made of fitting a SSD for boot, Win 10 and program installation and using my large 5TB 3.5-inch hard disk (Toshiba X300) for data storage.

The 3.5-inch hard disk has two plugs that fit - a 15-pin Serial ATA (SATA) Power connector and the 7-pin SATA Data cable (SATA 'L').

Does a 2.25-inch SATA laptop hard drive (or laptop SSD) have the same connectors?

Also, I'd like to dual-boot the Win 10 installation with Linux Mint. The recommendation is to install Win 10 then partition the drive as part of the Mint installation.

Can I do this with a SSD?

Does anyone have experience of doing this and if so, do I seem to have understood things correctly?

Thanks in advance,

Art

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Win10 clean install on Samsung SSD 850 EVO

BLUF: SSD is not listed ubder "Where do you want to install Windows?"

Steps Complete:

1. I've create a Win10 bootable install usb.

2. I connect the new Samsung SSD 850 EVO via SATA.

3. I reboot PC and verify SSD is seen by the motherboard/BIOS

4. Begin Win10 install via usb.

5. Get to "Where do you want to install Windows?" and the SSD is not listed

Problems:

1. Samsung does not offer a driver for the 850 on their website

2. Cannot locate driver elsewhere

Unsuccessful Mitigations Steps Attempt:

A. Format & partition SSD via Windows Disk Management, then retried steps 1-5 above....same result

B. Clone existing HHD onto SSD via "Image for Windows" by TeraByte, then verified SSD contents via Windows Explorer....similar result

Can you please offer some advice on locating a driver for a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB drive? Or an alternative method?

Thank you

 

ssd disk installation

hey hey there!

it is yr favorite IT GOD - me.... .And so I decided to change my old disk to SSD, got myself a Kingston sata 3 uv400 240gb, as I understood, it needs to be installed not only physically in my pc case, but also some bios manipulations needed as well.Here
I will have serious and big problems!!!!all that I have seen here is about w10 on SSD, I will need this too, but can someone give me a link with every step that I need to take for a healthy change???pls mortals, please...

 

SSD not being shown in disk management

Western Digital got back to me and this solved my problem:

Thank you for your continued response.

Please perform the steps mentioned below to run Diskpart. Please note that following steps will erase all the data on the SSD including partitions and boot sector.

1. Open Command Prompt, Click on Start - Run - Type cmd and hit Enter.

2. Type diskpart, and then press ENTER to open the diskpart tool.

3. Type list disk, and then press ENTER. A list of available hard disks is displayed.

4. Type sel disk #number, and then press ENTER. Number is the number of the hard disk that you want to clean. The hard disk is now selected.

5. Type det disk, and then press ENTER. A list of partitions on the hard disk is displayed. Use this information to verify that the correct disk is selected.

6. Make sure that the disk does not contain required data, type clean all, and then press ENTER to clean the disk. All the partitions and all the data on the disk is permanently removed.

7. Type exit, and then press ENTER to close