What do

What do

Go to linux.

I'm a professional music producer, the software I use isn't available on Linux

Port it to Linux.

whaha

Insert your Windows 10 bootable USB installer.
Repair installation.

This. Unless, but I cannot imagine you're even that stupid, the software isn't free and open source.

>implying I am not that stupid
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I'm downloading a W10 installer right now, takes a lot of time, and the instructions different websites give seem very complicated. I was hoping you guys would know a better solution. Or is this board just about Linux memes?

Looks like Windows is the meme now. Even repairing a non-bootable system is impossible with windows these days.

Fixing a non-booting GNU/Linux system is literally 3 minutes work.

honestly this. windows is kind of unstable right now going from update to update, so it's hard to give definitive advice

It sucks but it's still the best option for me overall since I need to use proprietry software.

I'm generally bad at tech speak. Will booting with a USB installer format my system, or delete any files?

Get Windows 7.

Just booting shouldn't do anything. Although it's windows we're talking about

>I'm downloading a W10 installer right now, takes a lot of time, and the instructions different websites give seem very complicated.
You know Microsoft provides a bootable USB installer application, right?
It's as easy as 1,2,3.

>Even repairing a non-bootable system is impossible with windows these days.
No it's not, it's fucking simple.
You could probably do it from a bootable Linux ISO depending on the exact issue.

Yeah that's what I'm downloading

What does non-bootable mean btw?

Install Gentoo.

>Will booting with a USB installer format my system
There's NO GUARANTEE the windows recovery tool will NOT destroy (some of) your data. The fastest way to get back in business is just reinstalling Windows and restore your files from backups. Recreating your work of today is probably faster then trying to restore a broken install.

How professional? Which DAW do you use?

You might try the windows install disk and fixboot. Or use a restoration point, if you have one. There are 3rd party tools to fix the boot as well. Honestly, though, windows very much sucks in this regard. It's trivial to replace the whole boot sector / efi partition on Linux, but on windows you might very well have to reinstall the whole thing.

I've worked with a lot of Indie bands. Not MTV material but enough to make a living. Use Pro Tools simply because it's the standard and I sometimes have to move between studios, but I prefer Reaper when I'm at home. Also use a lot of 3rd party plugins.

The latter.

Anyways, this could be hardware issues but otherwise - like others has pointed out - get a Windows 10 ISO on an usb stick, try booting from it and doing a system repair. I've done it myself but for a different issue, and it turned out fine. No files were missing or so. There is an option to re-install the whole system but keeping the user folders intact.

It means that your computer can't start up into it.

eat a dick

Oh nice

>de instrushions is complicate
>say me what do
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update: tried the W10 installer on a USB but it didn't work at all. Took it so a computer lab and they said it'd take at least an hour and still haven't got back to me. Feeling quite pissed off because I've got loads of work to do and only an old laptop to use.