Helios 300 will not boot and cannot reformat SSD

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My model is Helios G3-571. Purchased over 2 years ago so out of warranty.

This happened immediately after reboot during a Windows 10 update.

I am getting this error when I try to boot from the SSD:



In the BIOS the primary SSD is still recognized.

I tried booting from a Windows 10 flash drive and running bootrec commands, e.g.  "Bootrec /fixmbr". This results in nothing other than saying the command cannot be completed due to an "I/O Error".

The "Repair" option in Windows install said it could not repair.

So then I tried to just reinstall Windows on the primary SSD.

The Windows installer shows the O/S partition as all free space, so I tried installing on that, and ended up with this result:

 

I decided maybe I need to first delete the partitions and repartition so I started with the "System" one and got this:



Bios (version 1.13) information tab:



Any suggestions appreciated.