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Everything is broken, what do I do?

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I installed fedora and messed around with it and decided I was sticking with windows. I booted into windows where I just did some web browsing, then weird thing started happening. The task bar and start menu froze and I couldn't do anything but eventually they came back. Then I opened file explorer and it just showed "working on it". I restarted to try to fix it and I couldn't boot into windows. I tried to boot back into fedora and that's fucked up too. It gives a error "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000008b" What should I do? I only have a windows 8.1 usb stick and I don't want to have to re upgrade plus I need my files.

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If you have separate boot and storage drives, you can wipe the boot drive and then reinstall whatever OS you want. If you don't have two separate drives, I guess your files are screwed.

Quote me if you want me to reply.

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Just now, infinitymdm said:

If you have separate boot and storage drives, you can wipe the boot drive and then reinstall whatever OS you want. If you don't have two separate drives, I guess your files are screwed.

I can get most of my files from a live usb on linux I guess but then I'd still have to get windows back

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Or not. I keep getting an input/output error

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First post on these forums...so here goes...

Do you have a prebuilt Windows PE laying around? Can you get access to one? I would boot into Windows PE and browse the drive. From there you can always copy your files/folders to another network location or even to a USB drive. If it were me, the first thing I would do is make sure that my files are safe. From there you can start to repair Windows.

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