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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  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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

    Yeah, this is why I always recommend disconnecting drives you want left alone during the install process.

    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.

    Good news, at worst it wrecks your graphics, you’ll still have the text command line. Does Pop support the nouveau driver? If you can switch to that one, you’d get a working desktop at least.

    But what I would do from here is disconnect the Windows drive (and be very, very sure you have it right), then use the flash drive you used again and wipe and redo the Pop installation. You should be able to recover your stuff by reconnecting it later on (assuming you didn’t have Bitlocker enabled; if you did, you’ll have to use dislocker, and it’s a huge pain to use; or maybe you can use a windows live image and unlock and decrypt the drive).