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Windows corrupted, recovery disk not working
I'm trying to dual boot my new Inspiron laptop with Ubuntu, but I kept getting errors during installation.
I was told to change a few system settings and try again. However, after I did that, Windows was unable to boot.
I made a recovery USB beforehand, but it's not working; it spends half an hour saying "Recovering this PC", but then at the end it says "There was a problem recovering your PC" with no explanation.
I deleted the recovery partitions after making this USB, because they're supposed to work the same way. Does anybody have any suggestions that I can try? If not, I'm probably going to return this laptop and buy one with Ubuntu preloaded - I don't like knowing I just paid for an OS that can't restore itself and won't play well with other OSes. Before Windows 10, I've never had a problem dual booting, but now it seems impossible