Sorry this is taking so long between replies. You know, life stuff…

So I’m still at "Operating system not found”.

Here are screen captures taken with the Pop_OS live usb. First is from Disks, second is GParted.

Am I crazy or there’s no boot partition? At this point I’m ready to switch to another distro but I’m still conviced I’m doing something incredibly stupid and I might learn something.

BalenaEtcher on Windows.

Yeah, everything seems to be there: bin, boot, dev, etc, home, … Strange.

I looked at every single thing in there and there wasn’t anything about windows whatsoever. Thanks for the suggestion though!

I tried changing the order in Bios and switching order manually with F12. Same result. : (

Yeah, the black screen… When I did it and it went black, it came back to me that I had tried that before with the same result. I’m a slow learner! lol

I tried changing the order in Bios and switching order manually with F12. Same result. : (

Secure Boot was already disabled

As for the BIOS update, I’m going to read up on that.

Everybody remembers Ripley, but Aliens was a solid gender equality movie… filmed way back in 1986. Remember Vasquez and Ferro? Totally believable, flawed and likeable badasses. I find today’s characters to be way too perfect to be believable. Wonder Woman is a good example. I find her annoying.