I also tried something call boot-repair and that game me an error telling me to start BIOS in EFI mode or legacy, one to the two but to my understanding i was already in legacy mode, allowing this “CSM” is the only option i had aside from disabling secure boot. One thing i did find a little strange and again all these options made things that much more confusing was in my bios, I was allow to select “OS” between windows 7 and windows 8.x, which i’ve never seen before. Running Mate successfully at the moment as a single boot. there’s no way to install windows now is there? Id have to install windows then mate? Thanks a bunch.
Sorry for the constant editing but i literally spent half the day trying this and well not with much luck. As i recall bits and pieces of the errors i made have done i’m adding them. I also recall at some point my /dev/sda wasn’t sda anymore but sdb, lol i seriously made something really bad.