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Thanks for the additional comments on the System Reserved Partition. I will leave it alone since it is involved with boot. I will also assume that my F8 Key Advanced Startup Options were referencing WinRE.wim somewhere on the C: partition.
It's still not clear why my keyboard and mouse failed to work in the F8 Repair Your Computer option other than the theory on needing different drivers or using PS2 devices.
As an experiment, I just booted my Windows 7 Install Disk. The mouse and cursor worked on quite a few screens until the point where I stopped.
I was hoping to find a Recovery Console to see if my mouse or keyboard worked, but I only found something called Startup Repair. I was afraid to proceed as I did not want any changes made to the system.
If anyone knows anything about Startup Repair or whether it is the Recovery Console, please let us know.