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Hi Rowin7,
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I've run the Startup Repair 6 times, which should have been enough. The root cause has officially been found as "because of unspecified changes."
Those unspecified changes are the Vista recovery partition verses the W7 ~OS setup
(please read the copy/re-install info on your desired Back-up tool Macrium etc, EXCLUDE a partition)
This is all due to you NOT cleanly installing W7 and ONLY came into play during the repair.
Roy
Make a boot able drive.
How To Create Macrium Reflect Bootable Rescue CD/USB - YouTube
This is a Win 10 PE with a lot of tools. It has Macrium reflect
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums
I have Macrium installed already, as I use it to image this machine. And they both have Win7 ULT SP1. The Gateway is another backup, not just for data, but to use if this one is sick. That's why I didn't have an image of that one.
I don't know if the Win 10 tools will work on it. Will get back to you when done with Macrium.
As the tools are on a boot able disk, it doesn't matter the OS it's on.