YES.
And I guarantee you others will voice strong approval of this message. LOL
BalenaEtcher is notorious.
Whether it will help your issue, I cannot say... This one is a bit of a stumper. But I use Unetbootin. I recommend Rufus or Unetbootin.
You can ignore that. If you are able to find out how to enable Legacy, try that.
You can verify the md5sum, but that is not the same as verifying the integrity of the write.