That's exactly what I've been doing throughout this endeavor.

i'm using the media creation tool to make a flash drive for the install and i had completely uninstalled my antivirus softwear so i can't imagine that would be causing issues.

i tried a clean install following the guide you sent me but nothing has changed, it still tells me that required files are missing.

Ztruker, thanks for the advice but after running that tool it told me the service regestry was missing or corupted but it didn't fix my issue, the installer still stops around 20% of the way through...

I've spent the whole of today and yesterday trying to install windows 10 onto my SSD, it's not partitioned as i have read from various sites that the installation software will you all of that but...