Good luck! If you have trouble getting it to boot from usb, try not to get too discouraged. It sometimes takes a couple tries with some of these little PCs.
Also, 2 things:
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don't trash the old USB drive yet. Try using gparted or some other utility to departition and repartition it. Sometimes, those things can get corrupted but not actually ruined.
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you probably already figured this out, but don't use the same USB port for the next try. If the drive WAS killed, it's possible that the port is physically damaged.
Good advice, although you'd be surprised how often corporate machines don't have any BIOS/UEFI security.