My, you do seem to be making things hard for yourself.
Did you trust Windows to play nicely with Linux? Oh dear.
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Originally Posted by chrisp9au
Created a Win10 partition on my 1TB SSD and tried to install Win10. I have no idea what happened but I finished up with a dead SSD, no Linux, no Win10.  |
You might have overwritten the Linux bootloader when you installed Win 10 (Windows tends to do that). That's a recoverable error - boot from your original CD/DVD/USB (that you used to install) and repair the bootloader - I haven't done that in a few years, though, but I expect that still works. But, by now, I expect it's borked beyond recovery.
You say you have a 'dead' SSD? Not sure what you did there. Have you wiped it entirely and tried again? Boot into the live Mint image (from the Linux install CD/DVD/USB) and either:
(a) choose to install from scratch, selecting to wipe the entire SSD in the process; or
(b) use the Disks utility (or command line) to wipe the SSD manually.
Or, you can use the Disks utility to see some details and check diagnostics on the SSD. If the SSD doesn't show up in Disks, well ... have you unplugged it and plugged it back in again?
I usually advise against dual-booting these days because of the potential for such problems. If you must, however, then install Windows first so that Linux takes over the bootloader when installed later.
The Linux Mint forum is a better place to seek help on these issues - there'll be someone more up to date than me.