Yes indeed discussed, never explained. I didn't ask for another link to another page I've already read that contains half an explanation that someone that is already a programmer would understand did I?
In fact it seems fairly clear that you didn't read my postings, but simply the title, and decided that you'd tell me in a superior fashion that that had already been addressed. Well thanks.
Anyhow, for others, my allocation explanations and process from my second post did indeed work. There is no issue with the enumerating order of drives - I can't understand how there could be. Sata ports are physically numbered, and indeed labelled on the mobo. So I now see one system drive with my shares on it, and one NTFS drive in the external devices section.
I'm pretty damn pleased with myself, only its no eureka moment. When I go to set up backup location, I cannot select this external drive, it doesn't feature in the dropdown menu.
Anyone any idea why not? Seems bleedin unfair!!
Thanks.
Edit: I had to enable the NTFS drive as a shared folder so that it appears in the list of possible destinations. Stupid system as I do not want my backups as a share obviously. But it worked - first backup completed just now and scheduled for every week. As far as speed goes, I don't have much data, but it backed up about 40gb in a few minutes, so not exactly sluggish.
If anyone wants more details on how to go ahead, feel free to message.