I don't know if anyone can help me and I apologize up front for any stupid questions! I really don't know where to begin, but I'll try to explain this as best I can. I have a desktop computer with two hard drives; one with Windows 10 and the other running Linux mint 20.2. Everything is going just fine. I decided that since I also have an extra 2.5 hard drive, I would install Linux mint on the extra hard drive to be used on my laptop. The laptop is (or rather, was!) running Windows 11. I have heard all of the horror stories about attempting to dual boot Windows and Linux so I thought it would be best if I completely removed the hard drive with Windows on it, and put in the clean hard drive to install Linux mint on it. That's exactly what I did. The installation went smoothly, Linux mint was installed and everything seemed fine. I then thought I would just reinsert the Windows hard drive and place the Linux drive in an external USB hard drive enclosure. Now, here's where the fun begins -- when I attempted to boot the laptop, I was met with a black screen, (GNU GRUB version 2.04, Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. grub>_ ) Needless to say, I have absolutely NO IDEA what that means, and worse yet, I have no idea what to do! I don't know how in the world I have messed up my Windows hard drive, since it wasn't even in the computer when I installed Linux, but apparently I did something!
I don't know if anyone can help, but it felt good to be able to "vent"!
I don't know if anyone can help, but it felt good to be able to "vent"!