That was my mistake: I hate to admit it but I tried doing the diskpart from within Windows.
I would also like to note I was in favor of a clean install but I did the factory reset so the owner...

Hi Ken, I tried that when I had the opportunity to do so. When I did List disk, Disk 0 & Disk 1 showed up. However I couldn't select Disk 0. How could I have selected it?

Thanks for that plan: it worked for me on my friends computer.

I'll still keep that option in mind as that is what I was planning to do. My friend doesn't do well on computers and that's why his wife's computer is in so much trouble. Even though a factory reset...

That's the plan I'll use.
When I created the USB Recovery drive the computer was on Version 1709 (build 16299.64).

That looks very good then, thank you very much.
In addition to having created the USB Recovery Drive with system files I also took a snapshot of Disk Management when it was new.
It should be normal...

I have a friend who got a new Win10 computer about 4 months ago and it has been ransomwared. I don't know which version and haven't seen it yet. When he first got it and showed it to I created a USB...