Windows 10 Windows couldn't prepare the PC to boot into the next phase of installation.

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I have a PC with ASUS TUF motherboard, an RTX3080 GPU, a Ryzen 5 3500x CPU (I think, I might have that number wrong), 64GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB Samsung 960 M.2 SSD. I've had this PC for about 2 years now and it has spent almost every day of that in a semi truck. However, last week, it decided it didn't want to boot. It would load BIOS just fine, but the moment it would run the SSD, it would show a black screen with text saying to select a valid boot device. I installed it to the secondary M.2 slot thinking the primary slot was damaged. This didn't help. Today, I bought a new WD_Black 1TB SSD

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