I know that Time Machine is borked in Monterey for some people. So I went back into recovery mode and deleted that OS partition again, and finally decided to do a clean install again from the USB installer. When I tried to boot off the internal drive, I just got the flashing ?folder icon. I booted into the USB drive, and did the clone, which completed successfully. So, then I tried using SuperDuper! to clone the working external USB backup back to the SSD. All it would let me restore was system files and stuff like that, which is useless. Since I had a Time Machine backup, I tried using Migration Assistant to restore from that Time Machine backup, but simply could not do it. I also confirmed that the Recovery Partition was updated to Monterey as well. Using its Disk Utility I confirmed the "Base System" on the SSD was intact, and then proceeded to erase the main Big Sur partition. I then booted off my USB Monterey install drive. I also confirmed the new drive had an existing Recovery Partition for Big Sur. The new drive had Big-Sur pre-installed on it and booted up just fine. I then swapped the drives, and confirmed the new drive worked. I also made a Monterey 12.0.1 installer on a USB thumb drive. My 256 GB was a working pull from another 2015 Mac.) I made a Time Machine backup (hard drive attached to AirPort Extreme, so essentially a Time Capsule), and also made a bootable backup on an external USB hard drive, using SuperDuper!. (These are both drives native to this Mac model, and both were included with machines sold at retail from Apple. I found an OEM 256 GB Apple/Samsung SSUBX SSD for a reasonable price so I decided to do the upgrade. I had a 2015 MacBook Pro with OEM 128 GB SSUBX Apple/Samsung SSD.
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