here is the link to that watchdog file.
WATCHDOG-20250226-1337.dmp
After thinking about it: I am just going to save myself the headache and reformat my drives just run OS and programs on the 1tb drive. That will give me an opportunity to (hopefully) forego the bloatware downloads in the Gigabyte Control Center. Now I just have to figure out which of the things are necessary in their download package.