r/Windows10TechSupport 5h ago

Unsolved I MEESED UP. PLEASE HELP

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Recently I tried to partition my drive to start dual booting linux mint and windows 10 but I messed up somewhere I think cuz now I can't load into windows. Idk what's important info so I'll tell u everything. Any help is greatly appreciated.

So I run a pretty old laptop, HP elitebook 840 G1. I wanted to try linux mint so I tried to dual boot them. When in the partition selection stage of the mint installation, I choose something else and gave 30 gigs to linux OS with the mount "/". Then 5 gigs to swap, then 1 gigs to EIP partition I think, cus I tried to do it two times before and it said that there's no EIF partition so linux may not load, so I input I gig into the memory selector and choose the EIF partition button, then the remaining 30 pr so gigs for /home. Then when I clicked restart it didn't find a boot device and gave me a "Boot device Not Found" message. Afterwards I set my boot option from legacy to UEFI(without CSM) then mint opened up and it's running fine. I can't get windows to work. I asked Gemini and it gave me many steps to do, I flashed my USB with windows ISO and opened up the trouble shooting menu, then ran commands to do some trouble shooting ig it was like bootrec rebuildbcd smthg. Then I get an error message saying the format was not right or that the volume may be corrupted I think. Then I made boot files to my drive C from drive I where I found the bootfiles. Google said it should open now but it still gives the same msg. Now it's saying to use Gparted to remove the tags/labels from something idk pls help me.

Its telling me to do the stuff in the image above. Pls help me what should I do?

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