UPDATE: problem is now solved and windows 11 is installed. All it took was a USB made by a PC rather than my Mac 🥳 thank you everyone for your advice, it made me feel much less scared and confused by the repeating error ❤️

Thanks for this, I’ll see if my friend tomorrow can help me with this as I’m not the most confident with handling hardware plus I have no other Windows machines to use for testing.

Will try that tomorrow with a friend’s help

Doing this now 👍 however I don’t think the last line will be helpful since I literally installed a new MOBO, CPU + cooler with thermal paste on Sunday night and everything worked perfectly until I tried to reset.

I’ll be visiting a friend tomorrow who has a Windows PC and can check I am using a working USB