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Ummm.. @2harts4ever.... what are you calling a "clean install"? The first step in a clean install is to wipe out the previous installation of Windows and install to a "clean" blank space. So, if a clean install fails, there is no way for you to get a login again because there is nothing previous there to go back to. It sounds to me like you were just doing another in place upgrade, which we know will fail.
If you want to do a true clean install then you boot the computer from the Windows 10 installation USB flash drive or DVD. You select the custom install option, you delete every partition that is listed on the hard drive (which erases everything on the hard drive). You will be left with 1 big unallocated space. You install Windows to the unallocated space and let it set up the hard drive the way that it wants to.