Can't get Live/Install CD to work. What am I doing wrong?

I too had plenty of failures writing USB sticks but never with Win32DiskImager (or burning a DVD/CD). I did read there was an issue with the Linux tools...

No matter what I so with Win32DiskImager, it corrupts the USB. I have tried 3 different sticks, and ex-FAT, FAT32, and FAT and all are corrupted where Win10 wants to Reformat them. Taken to the Linux computer they are unreadable! Any more suggestions, I am all ears!

Not sure what to say. Win32DiskImager has always worked for me without any extraordinary effort (Windows 7-64-bit). Make sure your image files you've downloaded are good and not corrupted.

How do you know that they are corrupted?

Is there any chance that you have some of the very cheap USB sticks that over-state their physical size?
www.novatech.co.uk/blog/ebay-fake-capacity-usb-sticks/
That said, even a fake drive should be big enough for the Live Image.

TRAUPMANN00 wrote: No matter what I so with Win32DiskImager, it corrupts the USB. I have tried 3 different sticks, and ex-FAT, FAT32, and FAT and all are corrupted where Win10 wants to Reformat them. Taken to the Linux computer they are unreadable! Any more suggestions, I am all ears!

That is all normal for a hybrid image. Did you try to boot from it? You should set that in the mainboards BIOS as the first thing to do and disable UEFI if the mainboard has it.
You can try pressing F9 on HP computes or F12 on most other computers for a menu of what to use as a boot device. Some rare models use F11.

You can try pressing F9 on HP computes or F12 on most other computers for a menu of what to use as a boot device. Some rare models use F11.

I have found some also use F2