Hi,
I am very new to Linux as a whole, and only even started looking into it last week as Windows started really annoying me.
I run Windows 10 and have UEFI, not bios.
Upon looking into Linux, I decided to dual-boot ubuntu.
I installed it by burning the ISO to a USB and booting from that, after shrinking my C: drive (the same drive windows is installed to) by 25GB. Ubuntu was installed on that drive under two partitions.
I used the budgie-remix distro. However, after a couple of days I did something wrong with drivers, and it would freeze upon logging in.
As a result, being the idiot that I was, I decided to delete the partitions on which ubuntu was installed, and then re-install it.
I have now tried Xubuntu, WattOS, Mint, Budgie-Remix and Kubuntu and they all refuse to boot, getting to the screen with the logo and the loading before freezing there. This means that I cannot do anything to fix it using a linux terminal as I cannot even boot the live versions from the usb.
I get a few error messages before that comes up that disappear real fast, so the only one I can read before it disappears is something to do with 'broken bios suspected' - which I thought was weird, considering that I had no BIOS.
I tried going back to a system restore point that I made before installing ubuntu, but was told that all of my restore points were invalid. So, I reinstalled Windows.
That made absolutely no difference, however.
I then messed something else up which meant by Start Menu wouldn't open when trying to fix the issue, and ended up reinstalling Windows again
Now, using the command prompt in Windows, I accessed my EFI partition and deleted the 'ubuntu' directory in there.
When I go to UEFI and tell it to boot using the device named 'ubuntu' now, it just boots Windows. (Before I deleted the ubuntu folder in EFI, it sent me to GRUB (without any option to boot, it just gave me a command prompt, and before I deleted the partitions on which Linux was installed, it gave me a menu allowing me to boot budgie).
I then tried installing mint again, but the same thing happens - it gives me a few errors which disappear fast, then goes to the loading screen and freezes, at which point I have to hold my power button in to turn off.
I can't find anything else online - all the guides I find either just allow you to boot windows instead of GRUB, which I already do but I still want to dual-boot, or only apply to BIOS systems, and not UEFI.
Anyone have any idea about what I can do to fix this and get Linux working again?
Thanks in advance :)
I am very new to Linux as a whole, and only even started looking into it last week as Windows started really annoying me.
I run Windows 10 and have UEFI, not bios.
Upon looking into Linux, I decided to dual-boot ubuntu.
I installed it by burning the ISO to a USB and booting from that, after shrinking my C: drive (the same drive windows is installed to) by 25GB. Ubuntu was installed on that drive under two partitions.
I used the budgie-remix distro. However, after a couple of days I did something wrong with drivers, and it would freeze upon logging in.
As a result, being the idiot that I was, I decided to delete the partitions on which ubuntu was installed, and then re-install it.
I have now tried Xubuntu, WattOS, Mint, Budgie-Remix and Kubuntu and they all refuse to boot, getting to the screen with the logo and the loading before freezing there. This means that I cannot do anything to fix it using a linux terminal as I cannot even boot the live versions from the usb.
I get a few error messages before that comes up that disappear real fast, so the only one I can read before it disappears is something to do with 'broken bios suspected' - which I thought was weird, considering that I had no BIOS.
I tried going back to a system restore point that I made before installing ubuntu, but was told that all of my restore points were invalid. So, I reinstalled Windows.
That made absolutely no difference, however.
I then messed something else up which meant by Start Menu wouldn't open when trying to fix the issue, and ended up reinstalling Windows again
Now, using the command prompt in Windows, I accessed my EFI partition and deleted the 'ubuntu' directory in there.
When I go to UEFI and tell it to boot using the device named 'ubuntu' now, it just boots Windows. (Before I deleted the ubuntu folder in EFI, it sent me to GRUB (without any option to boot, it just gave me a command prompt, and before I deleted the partitions on which Linux was installed, it gave me a menu allowing me to boot budgie).
I then tried installing mint again, but the same thing happens - it gives me a few errors which disappear fast, then goes to the loading screen and freezes, at which point I have to hold my power button in to turn off.
I can't find anything else online - all the guides I find either just allow you to boot windows instead of GRUB, which I already do but I still want to dual-boot, or only apply to BIOS systems, and not UEFI.
Anyone have any idea about what I can do to fix this and get Linux working again?
Thanks in advance :)