BalenaEthcher won't run on old i5 Surface running Windows 10 Pro

I am trying to put Linux Mint on an old Surface only 8G ram …I have BalenaEthcher Portable 1.10.2 downloaded and my account is an Admin account… I have also tried right clicking and selecting Run as Admin…
In all cases I get a spinning wheel for about 5 seconds then nothing…

What the hell is happening…I hate Windows and just want to flip the Surface to run Linux…

I tried downloading Etcher to my Mac but when it flashes the ISO the USB drive gets formatted as GUID and the Surface can’t read it…

Any help would be appreciated.
Craig