captain-sensible
Well-Known Member
there must be hope otherwise you wouldn't even get a response "boot failed"
there must be hope otherwise you wouldn't even get a response "boot failed"
It sounds like your partitions got messed up when you either tried to shrink them or tried to install Linux. I recently installed linux mint without touching the partitions, what you do is choose the option to "install alongside Windows" and the installer will make the Linux partition for you, it will even give you an option to make the partition smaller or larger without messing anything up.
There is a small problem of how you are going to place the download onto the laptop if it won't boot anything. if your lucky and you place the bios firmware onto a usb stick and you reboot and go into bios recovery it might "see" the software on the usb stick. i haven't done any bios updates in a long time (to a certain extent if you have a working computer but the bios software is old ,there is some risk) in your case you have nothing to lose