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[innerspaceboy]

Hey, everyone. I did end up picking up a certified refurb SSD and spent 7 hours attempting to install Ubuntu and mirroring my OS config to the drive. I quickly learned that my custom config doesn't lend itself to cloning applications, so after trying several backup utilities I gave up and wrote a process guide to rebuild the entire system from scratch.

I then tried flashing the live USB with several distros none of which installed without errors, zeroed out the SSD and started from scratch repeatedly, but each attempt was worse than the prior. Every install reports numerous system errors when I boot to it, all application installs fail, and after the latest fresh install, the system freezes at the password prompt.

I ran disk tests and it says it's OK. Any ideas why the SSD is giving me so much trouble simply installing Ubuntu?