A Windows Re-install routine similar to XP.

I have to go to a printer to get the how to of the uninstall routine printed. I see where my mistake is: the piece begins by saying boot to Windows, but what is meant is boot windows on a separate drive where you have put an .iso with a setup on it.

I'll report back if/when I get the right .iso installed and going, then re-read the guide.
Fortunately this gaffe with Clonezilla was on some extra HDs.

But while I'm in here:

Say I get all this going. If the Setup is successful will I be able to establish the right sort of link to my homenet for the missing large shared media folder? IOW can I use Win7 menus to say 'join lon's homenet" and my media folder will then be accessible?

Keep in mind that this disk cannot see an OS at all. Which again may mean the repair cannot be done. However once I have all this as a procedure that works, I'll not bother with you further on the topic.

Thanks for your patience.

To clarify the difference between an installation disc, a repair disc, and a recovery disc(s) -
If you have a W7 installation disk you can overwrite just the OS and maintain your data.
The repair disk is used for various repair purposes but cannot be used to reinstall a system.
The recovery disk restores your hard drive as it was from the factory. If your data isn't backed up
you lose it.

Yes I think everyone is getting short tempered.

As to your question, No I cannot boot into the problem HD. The message at start up concerned a 'read' error and the screen says press control alt delete. I thought I put that as part of the problem early on.

The independently developed Linux program from Sourceforge called Clonezilal was used as an alternative to Norton Ghost. Norton Ghost could not see the target clone drive. Clonezilla could see the target drive which was attached (I'm scared to say mounted for all that means) to a SATA PCI card because my old motherboard only has 2 SATA and with 2 SATA drives plus a SATA DVD recorder
I needed to attach the PCI add-in card.

An error in using Clonezilla involving an option which I cannot give here because I'm out of spare drives to run the program-- damaged the source HD and the Target. Both give the same 'read', press control alt delete message.

I'm going to leave off this for a while.

Yes I think everyone is getting short tempered.

As to your question, No I cannot boot into the problem HD. The message at start up concerned a 'read' error and the screen says press control alt delete. I thought I put that as part of the problem early on.

The independently developed Linux program from Sourceforge called Clonezilla was used as an alternative to Norton Ghost. Norton Ghost could not see the target clone drive. Clonezilla could see the target drive which was attached (I'm scared to say mounted for all that means) to a SATA PCI card because my old motherboard only has 2 SATA and with 2 SATA drives plus a SATA DVD recorder
I needed to attach the PCI add-in card.

An error in using Clonezilla involving an option-- which I cannot give here because I'm out of spare drives to run the program-- damaged the source HD and the Target. Both give the same 'read' error , press control alt delete message.

I'm going to leave off of this for a while.