My sister’s boyfriend built a PC for my mum, which presumably worked for a while but not doesn’t so it’s come to me to fix..

I like the chap in question and don’t for a second suspect anything untoward with regards to the amount he charged my mum and the specs of this desktop, rather I suspect he was just a little inexperienced and may have made some dubious choices with how he spent the money.

Trying to run a windows 10 recovery from usb on this device is chronically slow, I’ve been waiting for it to move to the next screen for over 30 minutes.. it’ll get there but will it be today?

(Before any fossbros jump in, I will be installing Linux (mint in this case) and have already talked to my mum about it, but I need to recover data from the seemingly fucked M2 drive which for now requires me to continue through this arduous tedious process)