Not recoginizing usb or partition during boot up

I went to replace a copy of Linux in a dual boot seperate partitions on one HDD. I used Rufus to flash the iso to a thumb drive, then restarted, installed Linux, then rebooted but Linux was nowhere to be found. So I tried again, rebooting to the usb, or that was the plan. However the usb was not recognized, and it booted straight back to windows 10. So I tried a couple more times, and rapidly pressing F2, F8, and F12, did nothing but booted back to W10. Checking disk managment all disk, and partitions including usb show healthy. I don't have another pc at the moment  to test the usb, however the fact that Linux booted once, but not again, I doubt it's the usb.

At this point I remembered there was an email a couple days ago to update the bios. So I put the update on two seperate usb's, and tried to flash it to the pc. According to the bios, not only is the usb empty, but the usb does not exist. Which would be in line with the actual OS booting once, and not again. I've never had this kind of trouble dual-booting. As I said, from what I can tell, the Linux partition, and at least one of the usb's is still good, the other usb was a stretch, but I thought why not try it, nothing else was working. What can I do to the pc, to get it to recognize the "missing" hardware again? If I can get next door I'll try the usb in their pc, but I feel certain it's the pc not the usb. There are just too many things that should be working that aren't.

Thanks for the ideas.