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I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by Vespair@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hi I'm so sorry I don't mean to be a bother or force anyone into unpaid support, but I'm having a full meltdown and if I can't fix my system I'm screwed. I really thought I was doing it right and installing Pop to my second D drive to leave windows alone but somehow it completely broke Windows and I can load into that, only Pop! And unfortunately Pop! I guess isn't really my GPU (Nvidia 1080ti I think) so on my 4k monitor everything is blown up and the wrong aspect ratio, cutting off the bottoms of windows I Pop! so I can't even navigate this system that I'm 100% entirely unfamiliar with. I don't even care about getting windows back at this point if I can get Pop! usable, I just need a usable machine. I've tried some terminal stuff I've read online already but nothing has worked and I'm afraid to do the purge ~nnvidia command because it said it might turn my screen black and if I can't even get into Pop! then I'm screwed. I don't even know what help I need but I desperately need help

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I'm too stupid for this. I don't understand what anyone is saying, nothing is working. I don't know what to do. I need to stay away for a few because if I don't I'm going to kill myself. I'm very sorry and I appreciate everyone's help, I wish I that I was smarter and I wish that I was stronger.

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess I can't reply to my own post as a top level comment for some reason.

I broke everything. I don't understand anything. I don't know what I did. I managed to get windows to reinstall but broke shit during that too and now my PC won't see my second SSD. I dont understand anything anyone in this thread said. People are telling me to do operations I don't know about and are berrating me for not knowing things I didn't know I didn't know.

I'm stupid, clearly too stupid for this. I don't know what else people want me to say. I thought I downloaded a normal distro from a normal correct place. I dont know how I didn't. I'm stupid.

Now I have to try starting from a fresh Windows install that I know is broken and I don't know what to do.

I'm sorry I'm having a meltdown, but any time I try to do anything I feel like I'm trying so hard to do it right, and do I carefully, but no matter what I do I always ruin everything. I think I'm just going to kill myself, but thank you everyone for trying to help me. I'm sorry I'm a lost cause

[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Relax, you didn't break your PC, just some software on it. You now have a functional Windows again. You can either go to the website I linked and follow the step by step instructions there to install pop again.
Or in Windows, start diskmgr and use that to reformat your second SSD so Windows sees it again. (You'll lose all data that might still be on it)