Ok, thanks, thats good to know.

Thanks, I’ve gotten the files and will give it a go.

Hmm, I hope not, it’s a brand new SSD. Good to know if I want to move it to my linux box later. Thanks.

Thanks for the link, I’ve downloaded them now and will give it a go.

It’s the latest, greatest direct from microsoft’s website. I put the SSD in the first slot.

From what I can see, Rufus is a windows only program. I’ve been formatting the usb on a macintosh using fat with master boot record.

That sounds like a bad experience. I have it on a USB2 stick but in a 3 slot. I’ve put in a 2 slot but still nogo. Thanks for your input. :)

I had to look this up as I’m not current on windows and I checked the bios and it’s set to ahci.

It’s looking more and more like that’s going to be my solution. I was hoping to get win11 installed to ease some other network connectivity (with my astrophotography hardware) but it’s beginning to seem less worth the pain.

I have successfully formatted the disk using Linux and then deleted the partitions I created.

I have re-downloaded and burned the iso to a different usb stick. I’ve tried using different usb ports as well.

It won’t get past the screen to do the actual install. This is the first thing that shows up after booting

Funnily enough, I had already installed Mint to test the SSD and it formatted no problems and installed. I reformatted it back to one partition to install Windows first and then later will put Linux back on in a dual boot. Thanks.

I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote for including all the details. Great result, thanks for sharing.

Man, I miss Carl Sagan.

Nice photo OP. I too would like some details on your image.