Installing Windows 10

Before you begin

If you are reinstalling.. Make sure you have no other drives with windows installed plugged in except for the drive you want to reinstall windows. You may ignore this if this is your first installation on a blank drive.

The reason for this is because if you have a old drive with windows installed already and you install windows on a new second drive the installer is dumb and uses your old drive as an EFI boot partition. This will fuck up your installation on the new drive and not create the 4 partitions mentioned in this step. Best way to remedy is to unplug any old drives that have windows installed except for your target drive that you want to reinstall on (old drives that are just data drives with no OS are fine to stay plugged in). Then install windows on your target drive.

Begin...

--Plug in bootable usb made from rufus.

Press F11 (or any other hotkey that brings up the boot menu).

Select your usb device from the boot menu (Usually try to choose the UEFI boot option of your USB when you can)

Windows Setup Will Appear w/ Language Choices. Press Next.

Install Now.

When asked to select operating system you want to install.

Choose Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC x64. Then press Next.

Accept terms. Press Next.

Choose Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)

Now you need to decide on a drive to install

Be careful with this step otherwise you may erase the wrong drive and lose your data!

As you notice there are two types. There is Drive #. and Partition #. 

Choosing a drive to install windows on.

In the example above. We want to install on drive 1. So what we do is delete partitions 1 thru 4 under drive 1 until you only see "Drive #1 Unallocated Space"

Now you select that drive #1: Unallocated Space. And click New and when asked for Size just click Apply.

Partitions Warning... You should see 4!

After this step you should see 4 partitions of drive #1 automatically generated by Windows. You want to select the biggest partition belonging to drive #1. Usually, this biggest one is the 4th partition by default. If you do not see 4 partitions of your target drive stop, redo everything and unplug any drives that may have an existing EFI/Recovery/Windows installation on it. You should see 4 Partitions of your target drive!

Then press Format. After formatting make sure the big partition is still selected.... Press next. Now it will install

After Installation

1. Select region. Select Language. Skip Keyboard.

1. Case 1: If asked to connect to WiFi Don't! Trust me on this is if you want to avoid using Microsoft account to login to your own computer. If it asks are you sure just press the option that allows you to skip connecting to WiFi.
2. Case 2: When asked to Sign in with Microsoft Don't! Select Domain join instead on the bottom left.

Choose a local account name when prompted. Next. Optionally choose password Next.

When prompted Do more across device with activity history. Choose NO!

On the privacy settings. Select No on everything! Then Accept.