Hello,
I hav a 2012 manufactured samsung notebook laptop: Intel-i3(2cores@2.4GHz)/4GBs RAM/750GBs HDD/BIOS with UEFI support(which i have disabled in BIOS).I wanted to replace windows with mint without erasing other drives as i have media and other personal files in Those(those= drives other than C drive) drives. so i chose "somehing else" during the install process but in the partitioning dialog box i was able to find only 2 partition which were:
a) /dev/sda1 :ntfs :218.63 GiB.
b) unallocated which is 480 GiB.
So i created a ext4 primary partition with 409600 MiB with mount point '/' and thought that i will delete windows c drive later(later=after installing mint)so everything got right(right=installation complete) and then setup asked me to reboot or stay so i taped reboot but when my machine restarted it loaded windows directly without leting me to choose the OS i want to boot and that too in a situation where my windows was unable to start and it asked me to startup repair but i had no backup so my machine is i think bricked but my mint USB drive is still bootable so plese tell what i have to do to now as im o_O now...

Hi,

did you install Mint on a separate physical drive or just on another partition that of the drive that windows is installed on?

Regarding windows "startup repair", I'm no windows expert, but presumably you should let it do it.

Evo2.

If you don't want to loose the other files, run (don't walk) out and get an external drive and copy all the information you want to keep onto the external drive, before you do anything else.


Where did you place the grub/boot menu?

While ever the machine will boot off a usb it is not bricked.

1/ Get an external drive.

2/ Copy your information onto the external drive.

3 /Reinstall Mint.

also was windows booting in uefi or legacy mode?

And you installed the GRUB bootloader to where exactly?

run the boot-info tool https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-info/wiki/Home/ and or the boot-repair iso https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/ to run boot-info tool and post the results.txt so there will be no guessing with what you setup currently is.