I also tried this with Linux Mint Cinnamon ver 21.3 and had a similar result only it had an ACPI error and also would not boot to completion on a 4TB SSD .

I spent more than 2 hours googling and trying to solve the following problem without success. Disk utility shows my 1TB SSD as circular diagram with what seems to be 2 partitions: 930GB formatted as ...

The Kingston XS1000 External SSD ($64.99 for 1TB, $109.99 for 2TB as tested) is an affordable and eminently portable external solid-state drive (SSD) with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface that is compatible ...