Bummer, but I'm glad you could save your files.
Three weeks ago I was doing maintenance on my wife's laptop with Windows 7, while she was out doing errands for the day. I really screwed up W7 and couldn't reinstall it from the recovery partition. So then she calls and says she'll be home in an hour and I'm thinking 'damn I've got to get this fixed' as I know she'll want to look at the internet. So I install Linux Mint 19.2. I couldn't believe how easy it went and she likes the new OS too. So I dumped Windows myself and now use Linux Mint
Three weeks ago I was doing maintenance on my wife's laptop with Windows 7, while she was out doing errands for the day. I really screwed up W7 and couldn't reinstall it from the recovery partition. So then she calls and says she'll be home in an hour and I'm thinking 'damn I've got to get this fixed' as I know she'll want to look at the internet. So I install Linux Mint 19.2. I couldn't believe how easy it went and she likes the new OS too. So I dumped Windows myself and now use Linux Mint