It's been some years since I have had to do anything with a Windows installer, but this last week I spent the better part of four hours wrestling with installing Windows 10 on a brand new gaming machine.
Now I know that this should be really straight forward as it's just a normal disk in a desktop machine, but it really seems to be a tricky problem due to the lack of clear error messages you get when it fails to start the installation.
The basis is getting a valid copy of Windows 10 in an ISO download, putting it on a bootable USB stick, putting that in a port on the new machine, booting the machine to start the USB installer, clicking a few times to get your new disk formatted, partitioned, and finally watching the installation start copying files onto your new machine.
You would think it's that easy, right?
My journey was a bit harder than that... but I want to share the solution for others.