Yeah, I get why you'd want to think about the thing first. I'm new to Linux in general so I don't really know (yet) how one would go about changing controller-level software. But yeah, I'd guess that those would be the block too. I'm sure there would be other ways to deal with this, but I couldn't find enough information either, let alone how to do it myself in a more "manual" way.
Bricking my computer is nice, but I don't want to play games on it lol. I was trying to make a clean start for windows again after some persistent problems with search indexing and general performance issues. Did the hard reset, then tried to install NixOS, and failed :P Another hard reset was required. Now it's back to normal, maybe I'll try to install some other distro again before leaving town.
Ah, muy bien! I'd try to get every excuse to talk about 'dd'ing a drive too :p