@cml Well Shoot! that did it. I’m sorry I should have tried a different computer first. It’s early on a Monday here in Michigan and my brain is still mush after the weekend. Thanks again…I feel dumb lol

fixparts removes erroneous GPT data. What causes the pausing is the image truly believes it’s MBR based, but the disk has false GPT information still on it. This freezes the system until a key is pressed as the data can’t be found. It finds a bad first partition (GPT usually has 3 or more) and can’t process the partition table.