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More info: I had forgotten about this error message that had popped up during system startup back when the worst of all of this had begun...
Whatever that means and from wherever it had come had happened immediately following the initial part of a Win7 installation after I had failed to remember to not let Win7 do the partitioning. I had told Win7 to give itself a partition of a certain size, and then I goofed by not cancelling the installation and doing my own formatting first after it said it would be adding a small (UEFI?) partition at that same time. I know nothing about UEFI, but I have read about some older systems (such as mine?) not being compatible with it. In days past, some similar troubles came along for me during the Win7 Service Pack update for an older installation although that did not hurt me as badly since I did not have Win7 on my first drive at that time and it cannot do anything with its boot loader unless it is.BPD hidden sectors should not be zero for a hard-disk partition boot sector.