After earlier bonking the wrong button to power-up the laptop, grimacing upon learning that destroys non-Windows partitions, and working to recover from it all, the system is back.As mentioned, hitting the button caused the laptop to mess up my hard… more »

"Destroys laptop" is a little harsh, but it did destroy a partition on my hard drive, the one responsible for booting and running my OS, rendering it no longer useful.The hard drive itself is still functional, and the partitions other than the first… more »