Having some issues and any help given really needs to be in laymans terms. New to linux Got a 2TB hard drive and used balena etcher to flash the iso on it (i know its a large amount but the 2TB was the only hard drive I’ve had, and really wanted to switch to linux because privacy on windows isn’t g…

If you flashed an ISO to it, you need to reformat it so you can use it again. Install gparted, partitionmanager or gnome-disk-utility to have a GUI you can use to do this. Also, welcome to the forum!