Windows crashed?!?!!??

it's just the keyboard that's plugged in

not a damn thing

Honestly, just call up a buddy who actually knows their way around tech and ask them to swing by... and don't forget to offer them some coffee and maybe a few cookies while they're at it...

I did everything exactly the way you told me to, but honestly, nothing has changed. It just won't boot into Windows or Linux at all.

Are you absolutely positive that the Linux file has to be in ISO format?

darkmarlin16 said:So, I ran a scan on my rig using Spy Hunter, and once it finished, the program told me I had to reboot the machine.

Now here's the kicker: Windows won't even boot up anymore.

Anyone out there have any clue what the hell happened?

darkmarlin16, how on earth do you expect to follow Formula 1 racing if you can't even get your computer running? 🍿

Just install Windows 10 onto an HDD or an SSD and call it a day.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Honestly, the easiest way to handle this is just to grab a Linux Mint live USB. Here’s how I’d go about it:

1. Download Linux http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
2. Once that's done, you'll need to burn that ISO file onto a blank DVD—or, better yet, just flash it to a thumb drive.
3. Head into your BIOS settings and make sure your CD/DVD drive (or USB drive) is set as the primary boot device.
4. Boot into Linux, and that should be pretty much it—no full installation required. You can just plug in an external hard drive or a USB stick, move all your important files over there, and then you're free to format the main drive and install a fresh version of Windows.

p.s. I'm assuming you're comfortable with the actual Windows installation process, right?

darkmarlin16 said:I did everything exactly the way you told me to, but honestly, nothing has changed. It just won't boot into Windows or Linux at all.

Are you absolutely positive that the Linux file has to be in ISO format?

You didn't actually burn the entire .iso as one single file onto a DVD, did you? 🤦 Of course you can't just run Linux like that. It seems like you took the advice Larry Ortiz5 gave you way too literally.
If you take something like DVD Decrypter, it handles the whole process pretty smoothly by burning that .iso file directly onto a DVD just like it’s supposed to. Basically, it takes the contents of the .iso and turns it into a standard, functional DVD complete with all the necessary files tucked away inside.

shadowlynx102 said:You didn't actually burn the entire .iso as one single file onto a DVD, did you? 🤦 Of course you can't just run Linux like that. It seems like you took the advice Larry Ortiz5 gave you way too literally.
If you take something like DVD Decrypter, it handles the whole process pretty smoothly by burning that .iso file directly onto a DVD just like it’s supposed to. Basically, it takes the contents of the .iso and turns it into a standard, functional DVD complete with all the necessary files tucked away inside.

there's also free iso burner

So, how the hell do I set this thing up so it installs Windows on its own separate partition?

There’s absolutely zero sign of my pictures, my music, any documents, or even the stuff I actually downloaded, let alone anything that was sitting on my desktop 🙂 right after I booted up Mint

But wait, hold on, it’s actually all still there. It's just buried under the users folder 🙂

darkmarlin16 said:There’s absolutely zero sign of my pictures, my music, any documents, or even the stuff I actually downloaded, let alone anything that was sitting on my desktop 🙂 right after I booted up Mint

But wait, hold on, it’s actually all still there. It's just buried under the users folder 🙂

Look, man, if you installed Mint the standard way, obviously you aren't gonna see all those Windows desktop files just sitting there on the Mint desktop. It doesn't work like that.

Just navigate to your old desktop from within Mint by going to C:\Users\YourUsername\Desktop
then just grab your important stuff and drag it onto a thumb drive or something

just dumping all my files onto an external hard drive