Then I remembered:
I panicked. I didn't have a recovery USB. I didn't have a second computer. I had my phone, a cold sweat, and a growing sense of doom. windows 11 advanced startup from boot
I pressed the power button. The Lenovo logo appeared. Then—nothing. Just a spinning circle of dots that looped for ten minutes. Windows 11 was stuck in a boot loop, somewhere between "Just a moment" and "Your PC ran into a problem." Then I remembered: I panicked
It was 2 AM on a Tuesday. I had just finished a 14-page research paper—citations, footnotes, the works. I reached for my coffee, knocked it directly into the top fan of my gaming laptop, and watched the screen stutter, freeze, then die. a cold sweat