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Look up how to access the BIOS menu on your motherboard. (Should be able to look it up using your phone.) And then you should be able to change the boot order of your system so that it boots into your Windows drive. (If you don't know which drive it is, just keep changing the order until it works.)
Usually, all you need to do is just rapidly press F2, F10, F12, or Delete after turning your system on. But like I said, look up your motherboard's manual to be sure. Your motherboard model number will be on the motherboard itself.
When I switch to the Windows drive in the boot menu it just goes into a cycle of Windows Repair but never completes and I can't get through
how do you know it's a cycle?
Maybe it just takes so long, so you can leave it overnight.
For the future my recommendation is to install linux on a seperate drive, so you can completely physically unplug the windows drive so it can not be touched.
You can use a usb drive to boot https://www.system-rescue.org/Installing-SystemRescue-on-a-USB-memory-stick/ and it has an option to analyze your system and restore windows (if you didn't fully fuck it up)
It doesn't stall, it fails. If I select "continue to windows" it just repeats the process.
Can you live boot any USB os that has a working display for you, so you can take a look whats exactly on your disks?
You need to figure out whether you broke some replacable windows partition, or the boot partition or maybe something else. You can do that by looking at what files are on each partition.
I can get into Pop! but with the broken resolution. I do not have any other install OS or boot drives or anything like that (not even a win 10 disc, unfortunately)
do you not have the Pop live usb that you used for installation? Did the resolution work during the install process?
I have the same USB I installed from. It was also in 640x480. I thought this was normal because back in the day windows used to install in the smallest resolution at first (or so I believe; obviously I'm not savvy)
Okay. If you can get into Pop, you are good. Fixing the resolution is straightforwards.