Linux Install Crisis

Yes, hello. I am having serious issues I am hoping you can help me with. I initially had a VM installed ontop of Windows running Kali but it was way too slow. I set my Kali up as a dual boot with Windows but then decided to completely remove windows because its annoying and I have limited space on the computer. So running Kali Live, I deleted the Windows partition using gparted and created a new partition for my Kali in it's place. I shut down and restarted my system. This time, rather than choosing to run Kali live, I chose graphical install but as soon as it gets to the page where it's asking me what language I want to set up for the machine, it freezes for eternity and I have to forced my system to shut down, ouch!!

Ok so I'm thinking I could alternatively run Kali from my usb using persistence but when I selected that option, I tested it and saw it was not writing the changes to the disk, so that's not working either....

Help?