Problem Booting Ubuntu 18.04 from USB

Aug 18, 2018
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Ok! My system is as follows:

Gigabyte H310M DS2 motherboard with 8GB DDR4 Ram
MSI Geforce GT710 graphics card,
120GB Apacer SSD
1TB Seagate Barracuda hard drive
2 Samsung Monitors - a 24" and 19"

I Installed Ubuntu 18.04 & everything is working fine. I have decided to re-install afresh as I would like to have my /home directory on the 1TB HD. I created a bootable USB using Startup Disk creater. The PC boots up into the home screen with the Bionic Beaver logo and that's it. Basically frozen. Doesn't go beyond that point. Had a look around and tried everything I could find. Nothing works! I can boot up normally but not from the USB. Seems to be a bug. Anyone have a clue as to what this could be?
 
Aug 18, 2018
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Problem sorted out! I uninstalled the GT710 graphics card and then only could I boot up from USB. I then reformatted my drives as follows:

SSD - 512MB UEFI partition and the rest root - No swap partition. Ubuntu 18.04 creates a swap 2GB swap file automatically.
1TB HD - /home partition.

I reinstalled the graphics card and installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and everything is working fine now.