That made the difference, thank you!

Less that I was half reading them and more that I am really unfamiliar with the the whole process.

Thank you for laying this out so clearly, I am currently trying to install with the default prompts.

Trying balena out this time. I didn’t realize it could corrupt during the burn, thank you

That’s the ticket, I was not actually in the BIOS, thank you!

Thank you for clarifying that, I did not realize I was not in the BIOS menu there (very inexperienced at tinkering with computers as you can tell)

I validated the ISO and downloaded balena. Flashing the USB drive now and will try that out.

I didn’t see an option to get into the secure boot setting when I checked it last. I’ll have to prod it more tomorrow to see what’s happening. Thanks for the suggestion!

This looks promising, I’ll take a dive into it tomorrow. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion!

I don’t see an option in the BIOS to turn off the secure boot to do anything other than booting into the USB (hopefully the below image actually works). Seems like something I should have turned off before I tinkered though.

I’ll give balena a try and see if that can actually boot from the state its in.

Thanks for the response! Unfortunately I don’t remember exactly what they were, something along the lines of being unable to find something and skipping it. Really kicking myself for not grabbing a couple pictures of it now…

When you say bad USB drive do you mean something Rufus might have done like the other comment mentioned or the drive itself might have an issue?