While performing the Clean Installation of Windows, you must select a hard drive partition on which you want to install Windows. The selected hard drive partition should be empty; otherwise, ...

Perhaps it is set to look for a partition on the SSD that doesn't exist because it's MBR, but it falls back to the HDD if the SSD isn't connected. Unplug the SSD and boot to a Windows installer, and ...

ok i had copied all the files from the c-drive of my old dying pc to a new pc however I did not do a clone so I just have the files (all files including hidden ones) in my new c-drive. Ofcourse since ...