Well, I was having a heck of a time trying to load windows. I kept getting this error.
I spent much time looking around the net on this issue. It seems to be a fairly common problem across many brands of equipment. THIS person was in the same boat on here. But unlike him, I made the USB using the Windows tool. And most of the posts across the internet never posted a resolution. After formatting and loading way wore times than I care to think about, I threw in the towel. I updated the BIOS and loaded Ubuntu, and it is doing fine. I have not given it back to her yet, so I have no idea how happy she is going to be, but I have spent far too much time on this. I still think there is something really nasty on this drive and I have no desire to plug it into anything to attempt to format it. I think it did embed into the old BIOS also, but I have no proof of that besides I was never able to load anything into it before updating the BIOS and new SSD. This is the drive. Amazon.com: Crucial P5 Plus 1TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Gaming SSD, up to 6600MB/s - CT1000P5PSSD8 Solid State Drive : Electronics All my mother does it check her mail, zoom her family, and watch stuff on it. It has had a very easy life.
