Cant install windows 10 on new build via USB

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Hi, I recently finished a build and am stuck with installing windows :(. I setup a USB with everything from an old pc at work using the media creation tool. I get an error when trying to setup a install when i get to selecting the drive... the bios picks up on the SSD and knows theres an 850 EVO 250Gb there and its all enabled but it doesnt seem to show correctly when I try and select my drive to install... Heres what I get..

Drive 0 Partition 1 : Total Size 2048 GB, Free Space 0 MB, Type Primary

I cant format or anything all it says in my show details where it says i cant install is...

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NFTS.

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is of an unrecognized type."

I'm stumped, I dont have a way to format this drive so I cant get it to install windows... Please can someone help me i've been having a nightmare with this.

Pc specs:
-Gigabyte G1 Gaming - GA-170-Gaming K3 MOBO
-MSI GTX 1060
-16Gb DDR4 RAM
-i5 6600k
- Samsung 850 EVO 250gb

sorry if my formatting is off I'm using my partners mac book to post I hate these things haha.

Thanks for everyones help so far on the build etc, I know im having loads of stupid questions :( I appreciate all the advice.
 
Assuming you've not got another drive in there full of lovely data that you don't want to lose .... nuke it with diskpart.

I take no responsibility if you screw up any other drives using these commands...

Shift+F10 to open a command prompt. Then type in the following to erase all data on the disk :
diskpart
select disk 0
clean
exit
exit

At which point you should be back in the GUI. Click refresh and try again.
 
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