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It's really late for me right now but I'll talk so my brother tomorrow about borrowing an extra hard drive and attempting this then
I fixed it It's finally working It took me longer then I'm willing to admit but There's no reinstall button in the installer
But to do it is to select manual partition and simply set the original partition as /
Amazingly everything is exactly how I left it I expected to have to reconfigure my settings n such but it managed to retain my previous configurations
It's pretty normal to keep the configurations. An inplace reinstall will just put the system files back that got removed, then a reboot will bring them up with the configuration files left from before the reinstall as long as they were put in the right place for user-configured files.
Congrats! And good job not giving up!