Nightmare experience trying to use my ledger after one year of no use

I bought a ledger nano s back at the end of 2017 and never had a problem with it. Never updated the firmware and stopped using it mid 2018.

Today I wanted to use it to store some BTC and the ledger wallet bitcoin app on Chrome said I should update the firmware. Fair enough, I click on the link and it takes me to the app store to download ledger manager. After a few attempts the app finally recognised my ledger and I clicked l update firmware but I get an error with no real explanation why it didn't work. So I download ledger live from the website and start setting it up but it doesn't recognize my ledger when trying to check if the thing is authentic during the first few steps.

I'm given the option to repair the thing so I click on that and follow the instructions to go into Bootloader and it starts repairing. Fantastic! That is until it gets stuck at 99 percent.

Now the ledger is stuck in Bootloader and is not being recognised by anything anymore.

Extremely disappointed and ready to throw this brick into the trash.

Anyone have any ideas?