Yup, you're right, while i was waiting for a respond, i went through the installation again and realised that was what happening - and yes indeed, you're right, i was installing snake-oil to the sata drive [not an SSD btw] without knowing, the usb stick was just the boot loader. There you go, i learned something new today.
I'll give the \\hostname ago when the installation is completed.
Regards.
T.