Windows 10: Clean Install of Windows 10

I just built my first PC from scratch using a Tomahawk B350 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 1600 CPU, Geforce GTX 1050ti Graphics processor, two 8GB ram sticks, and a 240 GB SSD Sandisk. I cannot for the life of me get Windows 10 to install to it. I originally attempted to use the Windows Media Creation tool to make my own USB stick to download windows onto the PC but had no luck with the PC even recognizing it as correct installation media. So I went to Staples and purchased a USB manufactured from Windows themselves. I was able to have the USB bring up the installation guide after booting up but it failed the first time around. I was given the error message, "Windows Cannot Be Installed to This Disk. The Selected Disk Has an MBR Partition Table." So I used "Shift+F10" to gain access to DiskPart where I converted my drive to GPT. I reran the installation guide and now I am receiving this error message, "Windows cannot be installed to his hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS. Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP)." I have been hung up on by 4 different agents after calling in about the problem and I cannot seem to find a forum out there that knows what to do. Someone please help me!

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Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net

 

Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Clean Windows 10 (?PRO?) install

I have bought a legit "Windows 10 Pro" key of a key website. It is legit since i'm currently using it for over a year now. I currently have Windows 10 Pro installed on my PC and I want to do a clean install. I just can't find the windows 10 Pro download in the tool. But if i could use a windows 10 pro key with a normal windows 10 install, I'll be good to go.