Root account locked

I need a wizard to help me at this point. I probably bricked my system but I cannot figure out what is going wrong. Context: machine was originally set up as dual boot- dual drive. NVME with bazzite, and SATA with windows. I decided I dont even want windows anymore, so SATA got formatted. When I rebooted, the PC no longer boots into NVME. Another detail I noticed when booting from the NVME, the grub menu still reflects the original state with the windows boot drive. Fixes tried: 1. Loaded bazzite onto freshly formatted SATA. Tried to fix issues using AI, every suggestion with chroot failed due to missing directory. Managed to verify NVME data looks good, but cant restore it for some reason, maybe missing directories, maybe grub menu is messed up because it still thinks there is a windows drive if I try to boot into it. Attempting to boot into NVME takes me to emergency mode, but root account is locked so I cannot enter anything in command line. 2. Decided to say screw it, SATA will now be my main install, I can still access NVME for any files I still need. Messed around with rebasing to Bazzite DX to test winboat. Now this system is also acting up. I tried rolling back and now updated back normal Bazzite. Now the PC freezes when watching youtube. Tried disabling hardware acceleration, freezing stopped but video stutters. Tried some fixes recommended by ai to do with sound drivers, no good. I would love if someone were able to figure out how to fix the NVME boot issues