Will do. Thanks again.

Thanks guys. I already have Macrium with a WD raid 1 dual drive 4 TB backup system, but I can't/don't want to recover the disk image that's on it because the image includes all those pesky problems...

All is well! The system is up and running and my disk space is recovered. Thank you all so much for your help and patience. I feel like I dragged you through a lot of hoops when the problem was...

Okay, so I am making progress. The IMGBurn disk is working (write speed 4x as suggested and the disk was verified), but I think the real problem was user error. When booting from the DVD previously,...

I think F14TomCat may be right that the disk won't run because it is EFI as opposed to Legacy BIOS. Any thoughts?

The disks I'm using are DVD+R 4.7 GB. That should be enough to hold the ISO. After the burn there was still some space left. I can try it with IMGBurn if you think it will help.

I'm done for the day. I'll be back in the morning. 12 hours of this is enough.

Would the UEFI structure work given that I have a Legacy BIOS?

I used the MiniTool and found there are LOTS of files that are all exactly 200 MB. Probably a couple hundred of them all told. They could easily be eating up my hard drive. I've included the screen...

And the BIOS mode is Legacy, not UEFI. Again, would it be easier/possible to convert to UEFI? I saw a tutorial on this, but I am not sure how to tell if my motherboard will support UEFI. I'll be back...

Looking in system info it says "Secure Boot state is not supported"

I checked the BIOS settings in setup. I could not find any Secure Boot.

On it. I'll be back.

Is it worth it/possible to convert to UEFI? Would that be easier?

I would be happy to check re the Secure Boot. Is there a way to do this without rebooting the computer and entering setup? Can I do it from within Windows?

That is correct.

I have downloaded and installed IMGBurn, and have downloaded the W10 ISO. I looked at the tutorial you gave me a link to. That's what I used when I burned my current DVD. The files listed on the...

What I have on the disk now is ESD-ISO which is 4.37 GB. I am looking for IMGBurn and will get back in a few minutes after downloading it. I will also need to download the ISO file again as that...

If It makes any difference, I only asked for 64 bit version.

I downloaded the ISO file from Microsoft as instructed in the tutorial. I saved it to my desktop then went into file explorer and right clicked on the ISO file. I then asked to burn it to a DVD and...

Yes, I pressed enter. No error message or anything, but W10 then booted with my usual login screen with the W10 photo of a west coast ocean scene. It seemed like that shouldn't be what I should see.

Yes, I press enter. No error message or anything, but W10 then booted with my usual screen saver. It seemed like that shouldn't be what should see.

I know I'm not an idiot, and you did not imply that I was one. I just feel like one. Such is life.

Yes.

I am realizing that I don't know what I don't know. Clearly I am making a basic mistake somewhere. I am figuring this out as I go through the help you all are giving me.