system specs:
asus vivobook k513e
500gb nvme ssd
bios version
the rest is not very important as all other things work
so heres what happened in order of events :
1) first i wanted to reinstall debian so i got all of my important documents and put them on a usb device , (my data is secure i am not worried about that)
2) then what i did was i typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[devicename] to wipe my drive , obviously this destroyed my installation and that exactly what i wanted to do . i do not if this was a bad idea but considereing i was going to overwrite it with a fresh install i thought it would have not mattered , its worth mentioning that i also had luks encryption enabled .
3) then i put in my new usb and tried to boot from that . i used the debian live 11.3 nofree iso first (then the net inst , both gnome , both with closed firmware), because i am running a laptop and require support for wifi and bluetooth. basically this did not go to plan , i got this error message when trying to boot :
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"Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found"
4) then i deleted by secure boot keys because i did not need secure boot honestly and thought this was causing issues
5) it did not fix anything so i decided to try install windows(i know , i know its terrible but i have to give credits to windows for list disk and diskpart tools which i thought could work) windows could not find anything apart from the usb drive i was using for the install ,it also kept asking for a driver when i tried to install.
6) so thats it , i am not sure what to do its been about 2 days and i just want to install debian . if you can give me help it would be really helpful .
my second pc is a windows 10 pc which i use for gaming , its quite old and thats what i am typing this from.