SOLVED! I was just about to switch to a HDD again as I had enough until you popped up with the solution.
Thank you, Sir. I guess it was Microsoft just complicating things, and not signing in to the...

Hi, I did do a clean install of windows 10 and I have magician set up optimised for ssd. Faulty ssd I'm assuming.

Hi all,

Just bought a 128gb Samsung 850 SSD and performed a clean install of windows 10 on my Acer Aspire R3-471T Laptop.

Everything went smoothly, I let windows update itself and rebooted a...