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Clean install randomly unsuccessful; any solution?
I just swapped a working SSD into my newly acquired (used) 7th generation i3 laptop, then did a clean install of Win10 Pro 2004 from USB and ran Windows Update until it found no more updates. I ended up with a system that was brutally slow, much slower than with a traditional hard drive; totally unusable. After several hours of failed diagnosis, I gave up and re-did the clean install. The installer got into a loop during final system configuration, so I aborted and again re-did the clean install. Installer got stuck in a loop again, at a different spot. Aborted and re-did the clean install one more time ... this time it completed successfully and the system is running fast and stable, just like it should. I literally did nothing different any of these times, but got three different outcomes. Question is, next time I need to do a clean install, is there anything that I can do to ensure that installation is successful?