My first post so please be patient
I decided to ditch windows and install Linux to dual boot initially. I chose Zorin which flew on my SSD but didn't get on with it so to cut a long story short I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon. All was well till it came to choose a disk to install to and shock horror my 500GB SSD boot disk was nowhere to be seen, only one of the two SCSI hard disks that are fitted in my PC. So I joined here to hopefully find a solution but was horrified when I did a post search to see hundreds of postings about installation horror stories along with millions of solutions, some of them so involved that Einstein himself would be daunted. I myself at that point lost the will to live.
I trawled through I don't know how many and also went onto YouTube. After a while I had Kind of got half an idea why the disk did not show. Here is what I did. Excuse the simple language.
1. I downloaded a free Partition manager
2. I noted there were 3 partitions in total (2 tiny ones and 1 big baby)
3. I reduced the size of the big partition by 200GB
4. That left 4 partitions on the disk.
5. The 4th partition that that was created by reducing partition 3 was left as unallocated space
That was it. I then went through the reboot process and booted Mint from a live flash drive and when I clicked the install Mint button on the Cinnamon desktop it picked up the 200GB partition immediately, formatted the partition and installed Cinammon. Happy days
. There was no sign of the SCSI hard disk's. I thought I would pass this experience on because it occurred to me that I am probably not unique in my experience and it may well, if someone is searching, give some hope that there can and is light at the end of the tunnel and not to give up. I am not a newbie to computers per se only Linux and though I have had a computer of some description since 1980 I would never claim to know a lot about them but I am very bold in the way I tackle these issues that occur, of which in my time of using computers there have been many.
Thanks for this forum
Titus
