Grub broke Windows bootloader?

[suburbandisposal]

thanks for the replies folks, sorry I haven't responded with an update sooner. I've been pretty apprehensive to attempt to remedy the situation since I assumed booting into either OS would be a risk.

I do indeed keep my handy LL live USB at my desk at all times in case anything happens, and indeed I do not have a spare external hard drive or a USB stick that can hold all of my media at hand. I'm a bit of a music junkie

once I look over these methods and get the courage to perform them I can certainly post back with the results, and if I don't report back well..I'm sure you can guess my demise