So windows 11 update tanked my system…

[pianopraze]

Thank you for all that info.  

Are you saying that  windows documents file is accessible via the Mint OS?
How big a thumb drive should I use for Linux Mint?

8gb used to do it. I would recommend larger now a days as they are cheap.

you can see all the files on your computer.  Booting from a thumb drive you will not be using the os on the hard drive. You will be able to see all the drives and their contents.

great way to get your personal files off an unbootable hard drive. You can also reformat the hard drive. You can download windows too a second thumb drive or external disk, and make a windows thumb drive and then reboot with it (remove the Linux drive as you are rebooting) and install windows.

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I didn't mean for your current problem. It was meant for if you decide to reinstall Win11.

I am in the process of putting MS Flight Simulator which I just bought on a new NVME drive.  I was going to use Win 11 but I'll stick with Win 10 as I never had any problems with it as far as my DAW is concerned.

I hope you get your sanity back and some form of resolution.

Not listening was joke about devices listening…

this instal is unstable. Lots of random errors I’ve never seen before.

Going to have to reformat and try again.

very frustrated.