Ritesh, I am up and running again. Thanks for your help.

Anyone know if there is a way to download Arduino IDE code to ESP32 using an external USB-Serial converter connected to GPIO17(Rx1) and GPIO16(Tx1) ( instead of the default GPIO1(TX0) and GPIO3 (RX0) ) . I think the RX0 pin on my ESP32 is damaged and stuck high at 3.3v during the download phase.