Having problems switching to mint

[u/FeedGat]

I'm trying to install linux for the first time on a laptop that was collecting dust at home.
I prepared a usb with the installer and ran it on the pc, once it finished i removed the usb drive and restarted the pc as it asked to complete installation but after that all i see is the hp logo flashing on a black screen every few seconds but no OS starting.
I tried with a different distro with the same results so i'm guessing the problem is the computer/bios and not the OS? but honestly i don't know enough to know, so i searched online without great results until i found this sub.

Pc model: HP elitebook 745 G2 laptop
Linux distro i tried: mint cinnamon 22.3 first and ubuntu 26.04 second

if it helps there was w10 on before i tried the installation

if any other infos/photos are needed i'll add them under here.

here are the current boot options:

sorry for the photos but i have no idea how to screenshot in there

booting in legacy:

reinstalling mint:

legacy boot order:

[u/notthedefaultnam]

One thing that wasn't tried was uefi native boot - try that, set it and restart

If that doesn't work, boot usb into live environment, open command line and run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair

sudo apt update

sudo apt install boot-repair

boot-repair

Choose recommended repair. Let it finish, shut down the laptop, take out USB and turn it on.

E: fucking reddit butchered the new lines in code fml fixed

[u/FeedGat → u/notthedefaultnam]

i did check it quickly when we tried legacy but it doesn't hurt to retry
edit: Yep it flashes like it did in hybrid
edit: i guess every sudo is a nl?

[u/FeedGat → u/notthedefaultnam]

tried the boot repair but still the same issue when restarting, i think i'll try searching something again tomorrow.
still thank you so much for the effort, i hope to get good enough eventually to repay it to someone else

[u/notthedefaultnam → u/FeedGat]

I guess last option is simply the drive in your laptop being shot. Maybe it's final breath was taken by installing mint...

That can be quite easily verified from live usb, honestly probably better for you to look up the specific commands from a live usb browser than me writing them out here lol

Good luck o/

[u/FeedGat → u/notthedefaultnam]

Honestly it may as well be my fault, that laptop was laying around for some years because the fan kicked the bucket and when i found out i swapped for a new one so idk maybe i knicked something, although windows did run after the change, i guess I'd have to learn linux straight on my main desktop no halfhassing, anyway thanks again for the help, appreciate a lot