often times if you had backed up any important files before doing this you are gonna waste less time by just doing a clean reinstall, but you can definitely try to troubleshoot fixing the boot
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Hmm, after reinstalling, it still doesn't boot, even without Win 10
Can you load in to the live usb for mint and see what it looks like when you open gparted? When you reinstalled did you select erase the whole drive or another option?
Here are two videos on clean installing either ubuntu and windows just in case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP03Y-l9NOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOoyem2xOyc
Even if you want to keep on dual booting you'll have to get one installed first anyways.
It has three entries in gparted. "/dev/sda1" is "grub core.img" and is 1.00 MiB. "/dev/sda2" is fat32 and is 513 MiB and "/dev/sda3" is ext4 and is 237.97 GiB.
ext4 would be normal for linux and windows is usually formatted as ntfs, there's nothing abnormal with the partitions if you were trying to do just mint, unless the install messed with something weird in the bios I can't imagine why it wouldn't boot if you erased the drive while installing mint only, the installation should select that partition to boot without you having to do anything extra
I can access all the files via booting from USB, so maybe that's just the route I go then
Could be you need to set boot partition EFI in BIOS, or could be a recovery partition messing things up for you
How would I check on that?
Do you know if you installed in legacy BIOS or EFI mode? If its EFI then most BIOS screens have a method to then pick the actual EFI entry (if the bootup discovers more than one) and you can then set it to boot Linux (and hopefully your Linux install did a probe OS and chainloaded to your Windows Boot). I had this issue before.
I also had an HP recovery partition getting invoked every time windows booted and detected change. The remedy wiping the drive to her ride of that stupid partition
Good luck with a HP laptop. They don't like much dual boring.
I had no issue with HP, even with secure boot. Just had to pick boot order in BIOS