~Toughbooktalk~

Azrial wrote: GRUB2 and Ubuntu Linux are both gone.

It's not hopeless yet. The partition isn't destroyed just because GRUB bought the farm. You should really have tried to use boot-repair-disk with the password suggestions and not use the failsafe option. Failsafe goes for the first working OS in the first partition and stops looking. To detect Linux in a secondary partition and re-install GRUB you'd have to run the boot repair GUI. I'm quite sure it was root with no password.

Otherwise if you have a bootable LIVE Ubuntu CD or USB, same utility:
Recovering Ubuntu After Installing Windows.

Or a Mint live CD or USB, look at this:
Restore Grub Boot Loader in Linux Mint After Installing Windows

Edit: oh wait, too late? You zapped Ubuntu and went with Mint?

Azrial wrote:.....

No Apple anything here! (Thanks Shawn for the confusion! LoL)

I guess no one got the joke. The woman in the photo is biting the computer. Like biting an apple!

"I am dual booting Win7x64 Home Premium and Linux Mint 17.3, codename "Rosa" with the Cinnamon GUI on a AMD Sempron x64 CPU with 4 GB of RAM.

No Apple anything here! (Thanks Shawn for the confusion! LoL)"

Nope, wasn't confused. Was just stating that Linux and Microcrap can run on Apples equipment. Linux does a better job of it than MS.
I use the Cinn mint on a few old machines myself. no probs. Well hope it works out for you. For vid issues go to menu, administration, and try driver manager. See what it does.

Yea Shawn I got the joke. Would have been easier is she was a "bottle blonde" .

The Video issue was solved by installing the Nvidia drivers. This has been a bug in Ubuntu for the last few versions.

I assumed that if you knew the passwords, you would have told me about them when you refereed me to the program and frankly, I was pushed for time. Also the Failsafe version of the program deleted the Linux partition.

I have it up and running now. I had both machines accessing "My Documents" on the Windows side so I lost very little data. Thanks for the help!

Well haven't needed to use the programs in quite a long time. So just remembered that they worked and where to find them.