Just seen that the ssd was mbr. I've converted it to GPT and will give it another go now.

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You could be onto something. Now the progress has passed 43% which is where it usually fails.

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It got as far as 88% then failed when it came upon a bad sector. Looks like I'm going to have to find a way to get the laptop to boot into the BIOS or Startup screen.