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For the first time in what feels like forever, or at least since HP brought Compaq all those years ago, I found an HP laptop that did NOT need me to remove, buy, and replace the rubber foot strips in order to take it apart! An HP Laptop 15-fc0037.
The bad news? It came to me because its SSD (M.2 NVMe) died so suddenly and so completely, out of warranty, that the firmware diagnostics said nothing was installed.
It's been about 15 years or so since Microsoft's first version of the Windows Media Creation Tool, and the latest version STILL needs to run while logged into an Administrator account, even when downloading and writing to a USB thumb drive.
"Run as Administrator" from a Standard User account STILL isn't good enough.
Periodic reminder: Make backups, check that your backups are actually what you think they are, and test your backups.