Yes, personally i would have done that.
But having much experience with windows users, i wanted to avoid explaining how to put an image to a USB drive. I may be wrong.

ica, if you still encounter issues. Try to exactly document what you did please. in steps 1. 2. 3...
I can not make out when you tried to turn on the device for example.

And Halftux is totally right. If we can't explain you how to do it on windows, next step will be using the live-image halftux linked in his footer. Steps sound simple: copy it to a usb stick and boot a live debian environment. This will help others to guide you more exactly.

Then your next wow will be TAB completion

Even in windows cmd, you can type "cd " and then hit TAB key to switch through possible directories on alphabetical order to enter.
If you know you want to enter folder "Desktop" for example, just type "cd D" and hit TAB to autocomplete if only one folder starting with D exists.
You can either enter that folder by hitting enter, or append a \ after the autocomplete to further navigate into subfolders with TAB.