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@gregrocker. Hi and thanks for the post.
The laptop has no connections to it other than at present the usb stick.
It does have 2 HDDs inside the it. One is the original and boot os drive.
The other is a large storage drive that has only ever contained files, no os has been near it.
If I set the os internal hdd in bios as first boot, then well it boots first.
Since the os on the internal drive does go through a normal boot until the last step or so if I leave it as the first boot device all i will be able to do is look at the black screen with mouse pointer. that would be the issue this thread is about.
hmm I will check the bios boot order shortly to make sure that the other hdd is lower down the boot order, just in case the repair is trying to write to it for some reason. actually i think i will pull the drive completely, does mean getting the screwdriver out, but who knows how the repair program accesses the drives?
As for the repair program seeing an os to repair the answer would be yes and no. Yes because it does appear sometimes in the repair program. i can also cmd cd to the os drive from the repair program.
I have already tried the system restore option but with no luck. the repair program says there are no restore points present, but i can manually cmd cd to the restore point location and something is definitely there as i would expect as i make lots of restore points. i say i what i really mean is that my laptop os does when some programs run.
I will progress through the steps in the links you provided when I resume work on this problem.
I have to say though that I am reluctant to have to do a fresh os install just because of an automated update from ms going wrong. Reluctant, hell I'm fuming.