With rufus using the DD option to put the iso onto the usb sometimes works better. The DD option comes up after pressing the rufus start button. Windows won't recognize the usb file system after writing in dd mode, do not format if windows ask.

Success. I finally got Mint installed! It took awhile and I almost gave up. Here's how I finally got it to work.I aborted gthe first install and somehow messed my computer so it would not boot and Linux except SUSE from a USB Flash drive. I installed openSUSE and it fixed the Boot manager so it would load other Linux distros from a USB Flash drive. As my previous post show I was worried about it installing on the wrong partition and deleting Windows. So I booted back into Windows and using the Disk Partition I deleted the SUSE partition. That made it unallocated space again. Ran the Mint installer and selected install along side Windows and the rest is has they say history. Thanks for all your help