Problems installing Ubuntu on 2015 windows 10 laptop
Solution 1:
For creating Ubuntu install media from windows, use win32diskimager as per the Ubuntu website. Most distro's can be written using balena etcher, it will verify if it imaged the USB correctly or not which is the #1 issue usually with bad installs. If you insist on Rufus, 95% of the time you should always use DD mode to image the drive. In the future, if you're still using Linux, or even Mac for that matter, use the dd command as it gets the job done every time and it's very simple.