Help Novice Here How do I log back into Windows

[Incogneeto]

i think i know a mistake i made

[Incogneeto]

when i was installing linux i changed the default location of root

[LionelZaylan]

- I assume you are greeted by a grub> prompt or something like that on rebooting.

From your live USB, please insert your external disk with linux and run :

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 sudo lsblk 

and copy-paste its output in the forum.

That means to open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), type those commands, enter password ( the live USB password is "demo" ) and wait until it completes and you're presented with "demo@demo" in color.

More details on how to open terminal:
1) Press Ctrl+Alt+T when you reach your desktop (or open the terminal from the Menu). A black screen with your username appears. ( something like windows CMD )
2) Then, type

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 sudo lsblk 

in that. Then, press Enter on your keyboard.
3) Now, enter your password if asked. Your password won't appear even like ******* (due to security reasons)
4) Now, wait for it to complete and you will be presented with the next prompt with your username (On live USB, it is demo) on completion.

We'll say run

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 this 

, run

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 that

and this is what we mean.

[LionelZaylan]

oh no is that bad, its bad isnt it... im never gonna see that windows installation again am i

No, its never like that , unless you intentionally formatted C drive

I just said that method (the one I posted initially) won't work. Other methods will work anyway.

[LionelZaylan]

when i was installing linux i changed the default location of root

What did you change the root location to ?

[Incogneeto]

i dont have linux on a disc

i made root my c drive

[Incogneeto]

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 1.6G 1 loop /live/linux
sda 8:0 0 119.2G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 50M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 118.7G 0 part /media/demo/FAE4EE8AE4EE4889
└─sda3 8:3 0 534M 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 3.7T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 529.1G 0 part /media/demo/Expansion
├─sdb3 8:19 0 70.3G 0 part /media/demo/homeMX
├─sdb4 8:20 0 75G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sdb5 8:21 0 61G 0 part
sdc 8:32 1 29.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 26.8G 0 part /live/boot-dev
└─sdc2 8:34 1 3G 0 part /media/demo/persistence
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

[LionelZaylan]

- I assume your hard disk with Windows is somewhere near 119GB in size.

Please run

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ls /media/demo/FAE4EE8AE4EE4889 | grep -i program

and make sure that your C drive is intact. ( If so, it will output "Program Files" , "ProgramData" etc.,)

If not, please copy-paste its output here.

[Incogneeto]

correct and yep

[Incogneeto]

do you want to remotly access my pc